Ep. 1066 - Woke Trans Hospital Brags About Butchering Kids
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, has come forward to take responsibility for the unprecedented attack on the former president, who just so happens to be Biden s chief political rival in 2024, a man who is running against him in the presidential election.
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Yesterday, one day after the shocking FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Joe Biden's Attorney General
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Merrick Garland has come forward to take responsibility for the unprecedented attack
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on the former president, who just so happens to be Biden's chief political rival in 2024.
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Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida
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to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the FBI
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conducted earlier this week. That search was of premises located in Florida belonging to the
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former president. Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice
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Department and of our democracy. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear
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or favor. Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing. Federal law,
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long-standing department rules, and our ethical obligations prevent me from providing further
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details as to the basis of the search at this time. There are, however, certain points I want you to
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know. First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Let me
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address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department
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agents and prosecutors. I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked.
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Merrick Garland will not stand by silently while the integrity of the FBI and DOJ leadership
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is unfairly attacked. How about when it's fairly attacked? Unfair? Unfounded? Just to be clear,
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we're talking about the same DOJ and FBI that conspired with the Democrats and fabricated evidence
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that Trump had colluded with the Russians in order to spy on the Trump campaign. Then later launched a
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years-long $32 million special counsel investigation, also based on nothing to undermine the Trump
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administration after Trump entered office. And then two days ago, sent jackbooted thugs to raid the home
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of the current president's predecessor and chief rival, ostensibly to enforce a law that many other
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presidents and even presidential candidates, such as Hillary Clinton, more egregiously have violated without
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consequence. That's the DOJ. That's the FBI that we're not allowed to criticize, according to Merrick
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Garland. Merrick Garland, the jilted former federal judge who is now exacting revenge on his political enemies
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because cocaine Mitch McConnell and the Republicans denied him his dream job on the Supreme Court.
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How dare you attack my integrity? I'm not going to attack Merrick Garland's integrity or the integrity
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of the DOJ and FBI leadership, because that would imply that they have any integrity to attack and they do
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not. They have for years now revealed themselves to be political hacks whose job it is to destroy
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Republicans and to let Democrat criminals such as Hillary Clinton, such as Hunter Biden, we could be
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here all day if we kept listing the names, to let them off the hook for committing more serious crimes
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than any of the crimes that they even accuse the Republicans of. In the case of Trump, they have
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revealed themselves as the boy who cried wolf, accusing Trump of all sorts of nonsense from the fake
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dossier about the alleged hooker urine tape. You remember that one? That was a doozy. To all the
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other vague claims of bribes and blackmail and collusion without ever once producing the goods.
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No evidence whatsoever, just all sorts of insinuation. These people, Merrick Garland in particular,
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should be ashamed of what they have done to the rule of law in the United States. And as far as I'm
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concerned, unless the FBI found severed heads in a freezer at Mar-a-Lago, nothing could justify this
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raid, which, unlike Donald Trump, poses a genuine threat to our democracy. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from
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Inaccessible Cardinal, who says, my New Year's resolution was to drop 10 pounds. I finally hit
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my target this month. Granted, I gained 78 pounds over the first six months of the year. That's true.
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Kind of like inflation, don't you think? Inflation goes up, goes up to 40-year record highs, and then
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it comes down three cents per gallon of gas or whatever. And you say, oh, look, look at how great
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this is. Zero inflation, negative inflation, which is also bad too, by the way. Biden just doesn't realize
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that. Absolutely right. Great point. Congratulations on only gaining 68 pounds this
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on Trump. They've got him now. Oh, they've got him now. The FBI and the DOJ, they've got him.
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I mean, they've been saying that for seven years straight now. And every time they insinuate or even
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explicitly claim that he's committed some terrible offense, it never actually happened. And it was
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always fake. Going back to that fake dossier that they cooked up with the Democrats in the Hillary
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campaign. And then what else did we have? We had the urine tape we had. Do you remember the
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Ukraine phone call? The walls are closing in. We've got him now. Trump called President Zelensky
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in Ukraine, who for a while was portrayed as corrupt, but now they've switched the narrative
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on that. So now he's Winston Churchill. But still, he called him bad. That was bad. It's Mueller time.
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You remember that stupid t-shirt? Remember the Mueller investigation? That's gonna take Trump down.
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The walls are closing in. Where is, oh, nope, nothing. Nothing. We have nothing on him. Okay.
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But now, what are they saying they've got now? It's so desperate. It's so pathetic.
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Initially, they were going after Trump for his alleged business corruption. That's why he was
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just deposed in New York by the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James. It's his business
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corruption. The walls are closing in. And then they said that he violated the Presidential Records Act.
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Which is this part of federal law that says that the National Archives gets to own it basically every
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piece of paper in the White House. And Trump took some papers, which means he violated the law.
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We're gonna send him to jail now. Except pretty much every president technically violates the
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Presidential Records Act. Barack Obama technically violated it. He's kept a ton of documents, millions and
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millions of documents that he was supposed to turn over to the National Archives that he's just
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keeping in Chicago at his presidential library. And he said that he was gonna digitize them,
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by the way. The excuse that Obama used to keep all of his documents was, well, I'm gonna digitize
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them and make them public. Five years later, not a single document's been digitized. But okay,
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that's Barack Obama. This goes back to LBJ violated the Presidential Records Act. Richard Nixon,
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Richard Nixon, his library held onto tapes until 2010 or 2013, okay? This has never been enforced.
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It's preposterous. The DOJ was apparently working with Trump to get some of these documents back.
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They were aware of it. They saw the boxes of documents. They even told him to put a padlock on
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the room, reportedly. And then the raid. The raid up because the walls are closed. So what are they saying
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the raid is about now, when there was such huge blowback against it? They're saying it's that
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Donald Trump had nuclear secrets. He stole the nuclear codes or something. That's what the
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Washington Post had. FBI searched Trump's home to look for nuclear documents and other items,
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sources say. Okay, so what could that possibly mean? Some people are saying it means the nuclear codes.
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First of all, if my iCloud account, it makes me change my password every six months,
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I should hope that the nuclear codes change every once in a while. I hope so. I have to change my
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password when I log into Twitter regularly. I should hope that the codes that could lead to a
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nuclear apocalypse on Earth, I hope you have to refresh those, add a few special characters and
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capital letters. One would hope. But they don't really say it's the codes, though. What do they say it
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is? They say, this is according to the Washington Post, now citing the former chief of the Justice
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Department's counterintelligence section. If it is true that there is all this classified nuclear
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information, it would suggest that the material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been
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classified at the highest classification level. If the FBI and the DOJ believed there were top secret
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materials still at Mar-a-Lago, that would lend itself to greater hair on fire motivation
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to recover that material as quickly as possible. And this is why it really doesn't hold up as far
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as I'm concerned. So first of all, this is all being reported in the Washington Post. The Washington
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Post is profita. The Washington Post is the propaganda bullhorn for the deep state and the
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establishment. It's been true going back to the 1970s and probably earlier. Second, the sources cited in
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the Washington Post article are anonymous, as is frequently the case. And when the Washington Post
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reports on Trump, generally you've got to take it with a grain of salt because they hate his guts.
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When it's anonymous sources, you've really got to take it with a grain of salt. But then they cite
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people on the record responding to the anonymous sources. They say this was the highest classification
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level. Right. If Hillary Clinton had this material at her home, that would be a huge problem on her
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server because she has never been the president. She was a secretary of state. And so Hillary Clinton
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does not have the right to declassify whatever she wants. The president does. The president could have
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the most super duper top secret material in the world. He could then take a picture of it, post it on
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Twitter. That would be completely legal. That is his right because he's the president and he doesn't
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work for some hack at the DOJ. He's the president. He can declassify whatever he wants. But then third
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of all, and this is, I think to me, the part that really makes this whole thing fall apart.
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They say this is hair on fire stuff. The sense of urgency. They had to get this back. If it's so
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urgent, why'd they wait? What's it been? 18, 19 months of the Biden administration? This is so
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urgent. Why weren't they kicking down the doors at Mar-a-Lago January, 2021? If this is so urgent,
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why were they negotiating with Trump's lawyers? If this was so urgent, why did they see the material
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and say, okay, no big deal, put a padlock on it? Just doesn't add up. And when you put that in the
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context of the DOJ and the FBI repeatedly, consistently lying about Trump, fabricating
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evidence in some cases to get the FISA warrant for Crossfire Hurricane to spy on his campaign.
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When you look at all of the shenanigans, sometimes frequently illegal, that these agencies have
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undertaken to undermine Trump. You just look at this and you say, I don't buy it, kids. I don't
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buy it. This is an actual, we always hear about the assaults on our democracy. This is an actual
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Speaking of the fake news and the squandering of credibility by our public institutions,
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I don't know whether to laugh or to scream at this headline that was posted on NPR yesterday.
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NPR, liberal outlet, taxpayer subsidized liberal outlet, reporting on new COVID-19 guidance from
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the CDC. Here's the guidance. I didn't even believe this was real. When I saw this infographic floating
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around the internet, I said, this has to be a meme or a joke. I tracked down the source. No,
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it comes from NPR. NPR, getting it from the CDC. New COVID-19 guidance from the CDC focuses on
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individual decisions. Bullet point one, those exposed to the virus are no longer required to
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quarantine. I'm going to skip number two for a second. You'll see why. Number three, students can
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stay in class after being exposed to the virus. Okay. Number four, it's no longer recommended to
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screen those without symptoms. Okay. And then number two,
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unvaccinated people now have the same guidance as vaccinated people.
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It's been two and a half years. People lost their jobs.
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Because they refused to take that stupid Fauci ouchy that the libs, including Walensky and
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Fauci and Biden all lied about, lied about the efficacy, lied about the safety, lied about the
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whole thing. And they said, you have to get it. And if you won't take this experimental drug,
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you're going to lose your job. You're not going to get to see your dying grandmother in the hospital.
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You can't go overseas. You can't travel. You can't go to school. You can't do... Nevermind.
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Nevermind. Now it's all the same guidance for everybody. Oops. Oops.
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I'm going to recover my composure. I'm going to just patiently resign myself to the fact that
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I told you so. I didn't need to tell you. You understood this from the beginning. But so many
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people from the beginning said, no, Fauci is totally right. The vaccine is so wonderful.
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Everyone has to take it. Beep, boop, beep, boop. Follow the science. No, no, no. There's no
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incompetence here. There are no ulterior motives. There are no liars. Beep, beep, beep, beep, boop.
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No, it's really important to destroy people's lives and businesses and livelihoods and families
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Just going to take that in. I'm going to say, good. I'm glad we've moved past the vaccine thing.
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Every single person who lost their job, who was dismissed from the military. Oh my gosh.
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There are people who had to leave the military because of this. Every single person should get
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their job back. Practically speaking, I don't even know how that's possible. I don't know how you put
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the pieces back together again after two and a half years. But it is total vindication. Total
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vindication for those of us who were always skeptical of Dr. Fauci, who never believed the hysteria,
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who were always skeptical of the claims of the technocrats. It's total vindication. 100%.
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I think you should have gotten it when Dr. Fauci lied about the masks and explained that he lied.
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I actually admitted that he lied about the masks. I think you should have probably understood it
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when Dr. Fauci called himself the representative of science. You definitely should have gotten it
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yesterday when Dr. Fauci called himself a symbol of truth, of the truth.
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I think we get it now. I think we get it now. Speaking of dubious science, Boston Children's
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Hospital is just putting its foot right on the accelerator of our one-way trip to Gomorrah.
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They are now offering gender-affirming hysterectomies for young girls.
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The slippery slope has gone, we're in warp speed on the slippery slope. It went from,
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we had a society where we understood that men and women are different,
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to a society where men and women kind of seen as interchangeable. You know, feminism came around,
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a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. Then to a society, especially you see this in the gay
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rights movement where men and women's roles, including in romantic partnerships, are totally
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blurred. A man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. Then this was taken to its fullest extreme
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through transgenderism where they said, no, a woman literally can be a man and a man literally
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can be a woman. Then we said, actually, if that's true, then it can't just be true for adults. It's
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got to be true for kids because you're born this way. You've got the soul of a woman in the body of
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a man from the moment that you're conceived, even though you're not really a person when you're
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conceived, but you're only a person when the feminists want to admit that a baby's become
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a baby. But that's actually a side point. I digress. We have to trans the children. It's
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very important. We're going to bring transgenderism down to even elementary school. And we're going to
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at the very least put them on totally reversible puberty blockers and those totally reversible
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cross-sex hormones. Even though all of these drugs that then get you on the hook to big pharma for
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life at a huge expense, huge profits for big pharma, even though they cause all sorts of
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problems. And you're beginning to see this osteoporosis, sometimes permanent sterility in
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kids. That's no big deal. Don't worry. It's totally reversible. Oh yeah. And now also we're going to
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surgically remove the wombs of children to accommodate this absurd fad, this cult called transgenderism.
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So says Boston Children's Hospital. Here's the advertisement.
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Gender-affirming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies that occur. A hysterectomy
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itself is the removal of the uterus, the cervix, which is the opening of the uterus, and the fallopian
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tubes, which are attached to the sides of the uterus. Some gender-affirming hysterectomies will also
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include the removal of the ovaries, but that's technically a separate procedure called a bilateral
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oophrectomy. And not every gender-affirming hysterectomy includes that. And people who
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are getting gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed.
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Smiley, smiley. Yeah. So what we're going to do is not everyone has to have their ovaries removed.
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Okay. You've noticed this, how liberal, usually white millennial women, they end every question,
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or every sentence, rather, as though it were a question. And it always kind of ends up,
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and it's on a lilt, and it's really nice. It sounds nice, but you can tell there's a tension
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there, because what they're talking about is totally insane and really, really scary and
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vaguely threatening. So we're going to remove your fallopian tubes and maybe take out your ovaries.
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But at the very least, little kids, we're going to remove your womb.
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You expect, when you see this kind of evil in the country, you expect it to come with a pitchfork
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and horns and maybe a kind of scary, demonic voice. Listen, kids, we're going to cut your womb
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out. But it's not how it happens, actually. It's even more insidious than that. It happens in the
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name of compassion and being really nice and being really polite. And that's why, little girls,
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we're going to chop your womb out, because you mistakenly think you're a boy, and we're going
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to affirm you in that delusion. And then you're going to regret it later on, and we're going to
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have destroyed your body and your life. Obviously, this should be shut down. Anyone who is donating
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any money to this hospital should stop. Look, I'm sure the hospital does great work. Otherwise,
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they need to put massive pressure, cultural and social pressure, to shut down this clinic,
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which is really performing true evil on little kids. And then we need political pressure to shut
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this down from the level of the city and the state. It needs to be banned. The people who perform these
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kinds of surgeries should be in prison. Certainly, maybe you have a kind of amnesty right now.
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And you say, okay, people who were wrongly doing this, you didn't understand it. It was legal. Okay,
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so we're not going to throw you in the gulags yet. But now we've passed this law. If anyone even
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so much as thinks about performing the surgery afterward, you're going to prison. We're throwing
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away the key. We're going to treat you so viciously in prison, it will be as though you danced around
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the Capitol Rotunda in a horn hat on January 6th. That's how harsh we're going to be to you for
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chopping out the wombs of little girls, you freaking psychos. It's everywhere. This ideology is
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everywhere in society now. It's not just on the extreme crazy fringes of the Capitol Hill autonomous
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zone in some bizarre left-wing city with a bunch of anarchists and misfits and miscreants running the
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show. This is happening in our elite institutions. Boston Children's Hospital is a prestigious
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institution. It's happening right here in my own town. I love Nashville. Nashville's so great. I've been
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a Nashvillian now for two years or something. Love Tennessee. And you can even see it creeping in here.
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I fled at liberal California to be in a normal place. And yet here, you've got the elite girls
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school, Harpeth Hall, just announced even the elite school in Tennessee is going trans.
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Harpeth Hall dates back to 1865. It's an all-girls school. I don't have any daughters yet. I hope at
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some point to have daughters. I am. I think I might be too virile. I just keep producing men. I am just
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so filled to the brim with Y chromosomes and just brute masculinity that I keep producing boys.
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But at some point, I may have a girl, and I hope I do, so that I can grant people favors on her
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wedding day. If I have a girl someday, if I am so blessed, I cannot send her to Harpeth Hall. I can't do it.
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Because Harpeth Hall has just gone trans. Because Harpeth Hall, which was the girls' school in
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Tennessee, is no longer a girls' school, even though they're pretending to be a girls' school.
00:24:39.800
Harpeth Hall produced Reese Witherspoon, Amy Grant, Minnie Pearl, lots of famous alumni.
00:24:46.200
Not alumni. Alumni would imply just boys or boys and girls. But it's alumni because it's just girls.
00:24:51.520
But now they don't produce alumni. They produce alumni. The website of the school says people
00:24:58.400
need to live honorably and think critically. Until transgenderism, I guess. And then you throw
00:25:03.140
a critical thought out the window. The school's board of trustees, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
00:25:08.600
Committee has just created this new policy at the request of the school's administration.
00:25:14.240
The policy claims that trustees, quote, have heard from experts on the topic, shared educational
00:25:19.580
articles, and consulted with other girls' schools. So here's how I know I couldn't send my daughter to
00:25:24.980
Harpeth Hall someday in Nashville. Because they don't know anything about anything. They say they've
00:25:32.520
consulted experts. But you don't need an expert to know boys and girls are different. You don't need
00:25:37.680
to be an expert to know that boys can't become little girls and girls can't become little boys. So if
00:25:41.880
the school, at the very highest levels, is so confused on this that they don't know the difference
00:25:46.020
between boys and girls, then I can't trust them to teach my daughter anything. Because they don't
00:25:50.240
know anything. They are demonstrating such a degree of ignorance and idiocy. Maybe willful
00:25:56.620
ignorance. I suspect it is. That I couldn't trust them to teach my kids the ABCs. The policy, quote,
00:26:03.860
any student who identifies as a girl may apply to our school. So they give in to the fad.
00:26:09.720
And it's not going to turn out well. I mentioned this quote yesterday on the show.
00:26:12.840
I don't know if it's from Fulton Sheen or Dean Inge. I don't know. I think the Catholics
00:26:17.320
and the Protestants fight over who gets to claim this quote. It's a brilliant quote. I love it.
00:26:21.100
Whoever said it. Whoever marries himself to the spirit of the age will find himself a widower in
00:26:27.360
the next. If you marry yourself to the spirit of the age, you will become a widow in the next because
00:26:34.580
the spirit of the age is always changing. And that's why you've got to ground yourself in eternal
00:26:38.860
truths, not in passing fads. And transgenderism is a passing fad. That's not even a prediction.
00:26:45.400
That's just an historical fact. Transgenderism has cropped up at various times throughout history
00:26:50.960
in different forms, in different kinds of transgender expressions, I guess you could say.
00:26:56.340
But it's come up as the Gnostic dualist heresy. It's come up in a way as Albigensianism,
00:27:02.380
catheterism. It's come up in various forms. And now it's coming up in this particular transgender
00:27:08.560
way. It's already beginning to pass away in some cases. There's a wonderfully encouraging
00:27:13.520
report that's come out right now. There is an infamous gender clinic in Great Britain. I've
00:27:20.120
covered it on this show. It's called the Tavistock Gender Clinic in London. They offer,
00:27:25.280
quote, gender-affirming care and puberty blockers to thousands of children. 1,000 families are now
00:27:33.600
filing a medical negligence lawsuit against the clinic. They're targeting the Gender Identity
00:27:40.220
Development Service at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which they claim, rightly, recklessly doled
00:27:47.680
out puberty blockers with harmful side effects. Of course, these, quote, this is from the people who
00:27:54.500
are bringing this. The children have suffered life-changing and, in some cases, irreversible
00:27:58.860
effects of the treatment they received. We anticipate at least 1,000 clients will join this
00:28:02.720
action. Tip of the iceberg. This is just one clinic in just one part of the United Kingdom,
00:28:10.040
not even here in the United States yet. We also predicted this on the show years ago.
00:28:16.220
You are going to see, sooner rather than later, lawsuits being brought by people who, as children,
00:28:21.520
were subjected to these medical experiments who later on realized that they're extremely harmful
00:28:26.000
and they're going to sue their parents and they're going to sue the doctors and they're going to sue
00:28:28.660
the government, in some cases, if the government is providing health care. Good, we need more of that.
00:28:33.080
We need these institutions to be absolutely bankrupted. Ideally, you would see the people
00:28:38.440
who perform these kinds of mutilations and experiments have their livelihoods destroyed,
00:28:42.800
thrown in prison if possible, but at the very least, totally ostracized from public life,
00:28:48.620
at the very least, until they repent and recant and beg, beg forgiveness of what they've done
00:28:54.820
to these poor little kids. Speaking of dubious science, it's quite a story. Quite a story just
00:29:02.900
came out. This was trending on social media yesterday. The story comes from CNBC. The earth
00:29:09.960
spun faster than usual on June 29th and triggered climate anxiety. Here's how to cope. Did you suffer
00:29:20.080
any climate anxiety? Did you have, I didn't know the earth spun faster. I mean, all of my colleagues
00:29:26.400
are out of the office, either just not showing up or calling in sick. So it has felt faster to me
00:29:32.200
because sometimes when we work a lot or I have a newborn kid at home, that makes the time feel like
00:29:38.040
it's going a little faster because we have a lot to do. I don't generally feel the actual physical
00:29:42.180
earth spinning faster. It doesn't bother me too much. I've got other things in my life
00:29:47.700
to worry about than that. But some people, I guess, don't. What they worry about is climate anxiety.
00:29:54.620
Here's how you can cope, by the way. Try a news detox. Designate a time or multiple times throughout
00:30:02.340
the day when you don't consume any news. That's a good idea, at least when we're talking about CNBC,
00:30:08.120
at least when we're talking about the Washington Post. I don't think you need to take a news
00:30:12.000
detox from the Michael Knowles show because we're not selling you a bunch of ridiculous lies to freak
00:30:18.560
you out and just force you into supporting our environmentalist program by fear-mongering and
00:30:26.140
telling you the world is going to end in nine years if you don't raise taxes on certain industries and
00:30:32.140
drive a Tesla. Okay, we're not going to lie to you and manipulate you that way. So I don't think you
00:30:37.620
need to detox from us. You definitely need to detox from these extremely toxic news sources. Then,
00:30:43.180
this one's my favorite. Find a community. Talk to others about what you're feeling and consider
00:30:47.540
climate cafes. These are groups that meet up to discuss the state of the world.
00:30:55.760
Or you could just like go to church like you're supposed to because that's really what this is
00:30:59.940
about, right? Find a community that you can get together with and talk about your energy and
00:31:08.420
feelings to try to save the world. You're saying to pray. You really want to pray. That's the word
00:31:13.080
you want to use. You just don't know how to say it. So you're saying come into a community
00:31:16.580
where you pray that you won't be destroyed and the world will be saved. And you're describing a
00:31:23.500
church but in this bizarre lib way. You're taking your natural longing for God because man is a
00:31:29.680
fundamentally religious being. But you're denying God and you're denying true religion. And so you're
00:31:34.960
channeling it in all these bizarre ways. You'll feel a lot better if you just go to church. Okay?
00:31:41.120
You will. Rather than setting up coffee dates with a bunch of other liberal neurotics to talk about how
00:31:46.800
the world's going to end in five minutes. Just go to church. Okay? Take a detox from these absolute
00:31:54.340
looney tunes. Take a detox from all the fear mongering and the lies and the constant dishonesty
00:32:01.520
and deception. And just see things the way they are. All right? So you'll feel a lot better when
00:32:08.160
you tune out that Washington Post and you tune out that CNBC. And you recognize that there are
00:32:13.980
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Hey, Michael. Huge fan of the show. Also a big fan of the voice mailbag. Shout out to Pure Talk for
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making this happen. My question to you today is about South Park. So I've noticed that you've made
00:34:01.720
multiple references to South Park. Not only does it appear in your book, Speechless, but also you've
00:34:08.100
brought up episodes on the show before, like the transgender episode where he competes in sports and
00:34:13.020
how ridiculous that is and how it's barely even satire. And then just a week or two ago,
00:34:17.800
you talked about how South Park picked up on the fact that Donald Trump delivered a lot of his
00:34:22.220
speeches in the cadence of a comedian and how they made a parody of that. So I have two questions.
00:34:27.760
First, do you watch South Park? And second, do you think it's okay to watch South Park? Because I
00:34:33.600
think it's hilarious. I think it's extremely witty and that it's a perfect use of satire to show us how
00:34:40.100
ridiculous our society is. But also, it's extremely vulgar. It mocks religion. It mocks Christianity.
00:34:48.440
And it has a lot of inappropriate themes, sexual innuendos, things like that. So is it okay to
00:34:54.380
engage with South Park or similar media and use it as entertainment, even if it doesn't align with
00:35:00.500
our values? Thanks. Great question. Yes, I think so. But as with anything, you've got to be a little
00:35:09.700
careful. I think Trey Parker and Matt Stone who made South Park, I think they're geniuses. I think
00:35:14.700
South Park, generally speaking, is very well done. I don't really watch it anymore. I've been watching
00:35:18.620
it since almost the first episodes, even when I was a little kid. I just don't watch a ton of TV
00:35:23.680
anymore. At most, I'll watch one episode of one show every couple of days now. But I still really
00:35:32.080
love South Park. They don't get everything right and they get some things pretty wrong. And you
00:35:36.300
mentioned on religion, they get some things really, really wrong. I remember their episode
00:35:39.420
about Mel Gibson and the Passion of the Christ movie, which was in part very, very funny that
00:35:45.220
they really missed it. They really missed the boat because as I recall, the conclusion of that episode
00:35:49.080
was, we shouldn't think about how Jesus died. We should just think about what he taught,
00:35:53.280
which is just a really ignorant, shallow understanding of Christianity. The point
00:35:57.560
actually is that he died and suffered in the Passion and on the cross and then rises again from
00:36:03.060
the dead in the resurrection and redeems man from sin, conquers sin on the cross, and then comes back up
00:36:08.900
and harrows hell and opens up the gates of heaven. And so if you miss that, it just exposes a really
00:36:15.380
shallow understanding of Christianity. But I think it's worth pointing out, Trey Parker and Matt Stone
00:36:20.340
are not atheists. What they've said, though, they mock all sorts of religions. They mock Mormonism
00:36:26.260
famously. They say that of all the crazy, wild religious claims out there, I think it was Trey
00:36:32.700
Parker made this point. He said, the craziest one I've ever heard is that this whole world that we're
00:36:37.140
living in, everything, all of creation, all our loves and fears and hopes and dreams, it's all just
00:36:41.560
cuz, just cuz, whatever. He says the craziest religion is atheism. And so though he mocks
00:36:49.740
religion and maybe they haven't exhibited the highest level understanding of religion,
00:36:54.060
I don't think they're exactly hostile to religion necessarily. And their political satire is very
00:37:01.920
often really, really great. And especially in those early seasons, really, really funny stuff.
00:37:06.160
So yeah, as with anything, you know, do I think it's okay to have a drink? I do. You should probably
00:37:12.700
not have 15 drinks and then, you know, go get in your car and go on a rampage downtown. But
00:37:18.160
enjoyed responsibly. I think South Park is really, really funny. Next question.
00:37:24.180
Hi, Michael. I'm struggling to understand God and now he decides to answer prayers. I consider the
00:37:30.120
countless times I have said a prayer for something trivial, like finding my car keys. And I believe
00:37:34.960
to have God help me in those situations. I then relate this to a real desperate problem,
00:37:40.600
such as a mother losing her children, to kidnapping, and she is trying desperately to find them. So
00:37:45.500
often those children are never found, even though the loving parents may have prayed so fervently
00:37:50.160
and lived righteously in the gospel. This contrast between the two makes me confused about prayer
00:37:55.720
completely. Why would God help me discover the major I should take in school, the girls I should date,
00:38:00.700
the friends I should find, but then so often won't help mothers and fathers find their lost
00:38:04.740
children, or won't help a child escape, for instance, from a tyrannical government or abusive
00:38:08.880
family. I believe prayer is essential in life to align ourselves to God's will. But these contrasting
00:38:14.720
situations has me completely perplexed, but I think you can help me understand. Thanks so much.
00:38:19.580
Really good question. You're asking about two distinct concepts, and I think your confusion is
00:38:25.940
coming, is because you're, you're eliding the two a little bit. When we pray, Jesus tells us how to
00:38:31.840
pray in the gospels. He says, when you pray, pray like this, our father who art in heaven,
00:38:37.140
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The prayer goes
00:38:41.820
on. Thy will be done is very, very important here. Then you fast forward to Jesus in the garden of
00:38:47.400
Gethsemane, where he's awaiting his passion and crucifixion. And he says, he, he prays to God the
00:38:54.540
Father. And he says, please, Father, let this cup pass from my lips. But not, not my will be done,
00:39:02.600
but thy will be done. So Christ anticipating experiencing the worst possible thing that
00:39:10.620
anyone could possibly experience, that he uniquely can experience, that we actually can't even really
00:39:16.140
experience because we're not God. And he says, but not my will be done, but thy will be done.
00:39:23.200
So when we ask things of God, and we, we, of course, we ask things of God, there are different
00:39:28.340
kinds of prayer. There's prayer where you're sort of just contemplating and adoring God and worshiping
00:39:34.140
God. There's prayer where you are petitioning God and you're asking God for certain things.
00:39:38.480
You know, when I was in that delivery room with sweet little Elise a couple of weeks ago, you know,
00:39:42.620
I was praying, please God, let this all go okay. Let this all be safe and good and everything.
00:39:47.260
And so I'm making an ask. Now, when we are making an ask of God, we are relying on God's omnipotence.
00:39:58.060
And we're making an ask of God's omnipotence. We do not have the power, and in the gospel,
00:40:05.780
when Christ says, ask and you shall receive, that does not mean that we have the power to boss God
00:40:09.760
around. If we could boss God around, God would not be God. That would be incoherent.
00:40:13.320
But frequently, when we ask things of God, we get them in a way that can be quite surprising
00:40:21.600
the first, the first few times it happens in a way that can seem miraculous and sometimes is
00:40:27.260
miraculous. But you don't always get what you want. And in those cases, what we are called upon to do
00:40:33.460
is trust not merely in God's omnipotence, but in God's omniscience, in God's all-knowing,
00:40:40.940
in God's knowing that, listen, kid, I know you're upset now. I know this can be really hard.
00:40:47.020
But where were you when I laid the foundations of the world? Where were you when I set the order
00:40:50.760
to the universe? You really think you're going to do a better job than I am at this thing?
00:40:54.780
I don't think so. A great way to think about this, and this has happened in my own life,
00:40:59.960
is where you are up for a job, and you really want to get this job, and this is your dream job,
00:41:03.620
and you think it'll make a great life. And then you don't get it, and you're really disappointed.
00:41:07.540
And you pray, and you say, why didn't I get that dream job? And then two seconds later,
00:41:10.520
you end up in some other job that's way, way better and gives you a way, way, way better life.
00:41:13.920
And you couldn't have known that. God knew that, but you couldn't have known that.
00:41:18.580
And I don't mean to suggest, by the way, that every time something you ask for that is material,
00:41:23.900
and you don't get it, that you're going to get something greater that is in the material world.
00:41:27.820
You might not. You might not get the dream job, and then you might get cancer,
00:41:32.080
and then you might suffer for six years, and then you might die. And still, you might,
00:41:37.600
you might, and I think will ultimately be edified and sanctified by that. Or certainly,
00:41:44.820
certainly you could be. Certainly that could be, and will be, the best possible world.
00:41:50.620
Some people ask, why do we have free will? If we didn't have free will, then there wouldn't
00:41:54.540
have been a fall in the garden, and then everything would be perfect. And darn it, Adam and Eve,
00:41:58.660
why'd you have to do that? How can this be the greatest of all possible worlds? How can God be
00:42:03.160
all good if we live in this fallen world? And the conclusion, it seems to me, has to be that the
00:42:08.220
fallen world, with the incarnation and with the atonement, is actually better than just Adam and
00:42:15.640
Eve gallivanting around the Garden of Eden in perpetuity. This is what Christians exclaim on
00:42:20.180
Easter when they say, oh, happy fault that one for us so great, so glorious, a redeemer. Next question.
00:42:24.740
Hello, Mr. Knowles. I am a Christian, conservative Kansan, and I voted no on the Value Them Both
00:42:31.840
Amendment. I did not vote no because I am a squish, but precisely because I am not one.
00:42:38.700
The VTB Amendment's legislative wording would have impeded abortion from being fully banned in the
00:42:44.140
future. Dobbs left it possible to regulate abortion in the states. This pro-life bill would cement
00:42:50.660
regulation into our law and therefore not allow it to be banned, and so I voted no. To be clear,
00:42:59.260
I am specifically an abolitionist. Our voting beliefs are different from the pro-life movement,
00:43:04.840
since abolitionists only vote on legislature that bans abortion from conception, is immediate and
00:43:11.600
uncompromising, and criminalizes all parties involved. Allowing exceptions for abortion is
00:43:18.520
unbiblical. If we truly want abortion to be abolished in our country, we need to treat this
00:43:24.920
crime as one by giving it criminal consequences for both the doctor and the parents, no matter the
00:43:31.600
circumstances the child was conceived in. I'm curious as to what your take is on my decision to vote no
00:43:38.320
and on the abolitionist movement as a whole. Really, really good question. The short answer is I disagree
00:43:46.900
with your stance tactically, but not in principle. So you're referencing this Kansas referendum, this
00:43:55.480
amendment that came up for a referendum that failed. And I should point out, I just read some headlines
00:44:00.220
about it on the show, and people wrote in and they said, Michael, you misrepresented what the amendment
00:44:04.180
was. And I have no doubt that I did. I was basically just reading some amendments about, some headlines
00:44:09.000
rather, about the amendment. And I think part of the reason it failed and part of the controversy around it is
00:44:15.480
because there was some confusion, especially in the press, probably intentional, about what that amendment
00:44:20.160
would do. So let's take your understanding of the amendment, that actually this could really hurt us in the long
00:44:28.100
term because it would make it impossible to get totally perfect pro-life legislation, and therefore
00:44:33.660
you voted no. I totally respect that stance. And I'll plead ignorance on the minutia of the amendment
00:44:42.480
to begin with. So I'll zoom it out from that specific Kansas amendment to the issue more broadly.
00:44:48.920
I am perfectly willing to take a 90% win and then try to get the next 10% later on.
00:44:58.100
I think that's fine. I generally fear letting the perfect get in the way of the good.
00:45:03.820
I'm perfectly willing to make incremental change. You might object and say, no, the incremental change
00:45:10.160
is actually going to reduce the likelihood that we get the perfect outcome that I want.
00:45:17.060
I don't think that's true. I think that the way politics works is through momentum.
00:45:21.380
So I think incremental change actually will help us to achieve a kind of perfect goal, in this case,
00:45:25.740
banning abortion period. But reasonable people can disagree on that. The disagreement that we're
00:45:33.420
having is merely tactical, though. I don't think it's a disagreement on the principle. Next question.
00:45:38.940
Hey, Michael. My question is in regards to childhood sports. I've got one son who is very athletic and has
00:45:47.960
shown interest in pretty much all sports, but has definitely expressed interest in playing football
00:45:53.020
one day. And given how dangerous it is, I'm just curious what your thoughts are on football and if
00:46:01.380
you plan to let your sons play if they want to, or if you plan on trying to steer them more towards
00:46:07.960
soccer or tennis or baseball, basketball, what have you. Thanks, Michael.
00:46:14.160
Just knowing the Knowles genes, probably this is an unfounded fear that I would have that they will
00:46:21.100
be football stars. But maybe it's possible. Listen, my eldest son, he's got a really good arm.
00:46:27.400
And my newborn son, he came out looking like a real bruiser. So maybe they'll be real tough kids.
00:46:33.640
I mean, my gosh, the second kid came in, he was over nine pounds. He's a big guy. So maybe they'll be
00:46:38.660
big stars. I would not guide them to soccer, which I think is an abomination.
00:46:44.160
I would probably guide them toward baseball, the real American pastime. Football is a little bit
00:46:50.280
dangerous. I agree with that. And so I would be hesitant. I would take a moment and probably
00:46:54.680
discourage them from that. I also think baseball is a better sport. But I would at least be open
00:46:59.880
to it, though I would guide them in the direction of baseball. I want to get to at least one or two
00:47:04.680
regular mailbag questions before we go. From Julia, Michael, love the show. I believe every child needs
00:47:09.740
both a mother and a father, which is why I don't support gay adoption. Sounds like you agree with this idea.
00:47:13.780
This led me to wonder if you also believe single people should be barred from adopting. Thoughts?
00:47:18.080
Thanks. Yes, absolutely. Single people should be barred from adopting. If you believe that men and
00:47:24.580
women both have something to offer humanity and children, then I don't understand how you can
00:47:29.940
support homosexual adoption or single adoption. I know that some people really want to have kids.
00:47:35.080
Homosexuals want to have kids. Single people want to have kids. It's not about you. It's about the kid,
00:47:39.340
the only people who can be said to have rights in that kind of situation. We're talking about the
00:47:43.360
upbringing of kids, are the kids. So no, there are 36 couples estimated for every one newborn baby
00:47:51.180
put up for adoption in the United States. 36 couples who want to adopt. So we should prioritize people
00:47:56.720
who are married, who are actually married, man and woman, in a real marriage to adopt those children.
00:48:02.520
No question. Last question from Kyle. Michael, when will Senator Cruz announce you as his running mate?
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Great. Thanks, Kyle. There are a few issues with that. One, Senator, I'm not being coy here or
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anything. I don't know if Senator Cruz is going to run for president in 2024. And then there's this
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minor issue, which is that I'm constitutionally ineligible at the moment because I will not be 35
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on the day of the election or the inauguration. So we're just going to have to wait. Going to have
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to wait at least one more cycle. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you next time.
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