The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1072 - Crackdown On Election Fraudsters

00:00:00.000 Next time you stop at a gas station, think of it as a $100 a month tax cut, or maybe a $100 a month

00:00:08.220 raise. That is a verbatim suggestion from CNN, which goes on to report, quote,

00:00:15.800 a $1 decrease in gas prices equals about $125 billion a year in savings for U.S. households,

00:00:22.960 or more than $10 billion a month. That's equal to about a half of a percentage point

00:00:29.040 on the nation's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity.

00:00:34.140 And that's just a direct benefit. Lower diesel prices bring down the cost of transportation

00:00:38.580 for all goods, including food. If you add in the indirect benefits, it's real money,

00:00:45.660 real money in our pockets, all because the price of gas has gone down on Joe Biden's watch. Thanks,

00:00:52.880 Joe. Except, of course, that it hasn't. It just hasn't. That's just not true. The price of gas

00:01:00.420 has increased substantially on Joe Biden's watch. It's up almost 65% since the day he took office.

00:01:08.560 And that's with him draining the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the midterm elections.

00:01:13.980 After that, it's going to go right back up again. This article from CNN, this very article by,

00:01:19.500 what's his name? Chris Isidore. This would make a North Korean news anchor blush. Pravda,

00:01:28.280 at the height of the Cold War, would think twice about running this kind of ridiculous propaganda. 0.84

00:01:35.400 Da, comrade, that is too much. You have gone too far, comrade Isidore. And yet CNN has absolutely

00:01:41.460 no shame. In the old Soviet Union, at least Pravda admitted that it was the Communist Party paper.

00:01:48.400 In the US, our allegedly intrepid and independent press runs this kind of nonsense on a daily basis.

00:01:57.040 The only difference is that CNN and the New York Times and the Washington Post and all the networks

00:02:03.160 and on and on, the entire establishment media apparatus doesn't even have the decency of the

00:02:09.460 Soviets to admit that they're party organs whose only job it is to carry water for politicians.

00:02:16.040 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:03:50.860 cryptocurrency today. Altoira.com slash Michael. If you wrote a Hollywood script, you took it to a

00:03:58.360 big studio producer in Los Angeles. You said, here's my script of a completely propagandistic

00:04:06.040 news media that all they ever do is shill for the dominant regime. And you brought them this headline

00:04:13.200 in this context, gas going through the roof, cost of everything going up, 40-year record high inflation.

00:04:18.540 And you brought them the headline, America just got $100 a month raise. Thank you, Biden, for these gas

00:04:25.580 prices that you can see with your own eyes. And you got to pay for them out of your wallet.

00:04:30.340 They're really, secretly, they're really low. Because two plus two equals five, you would be laughed

00:04:35.760 out of the room. They would say, it's two on the nose. You've got to cut it out. Americans can tell.

00:04:42.240 Okay. The joke is not on us. They think the joke is on us. They're in the editorial room.

00:04:49.440 Tee hee. Let's convince all those hoi polloi idiots that actually the gas is cheaper. Tee hee. We'll 1.00

00:04:55.720 pull the wool over their eyes. No, the joke's not on us. They are the joke. CNN is the joke. They're

00:05:00.060 the punchline. Okay. Americans recognize this stuff. They are sick of the propaganda. That is why we cheer

00:05:08.220 when CNN's ratings go down. That's why we cheer when one of the most, one of the least bearable,

00:05:15.640 I was going to say most unbearable, but I get one of the least bearable, most tedious figures on CNN,

00:05:21.300 Brian Stelter, just got canned. And it brought back this montage that tells you everything you

00:05:28.600 need to know about our establishment press.

00:05:30.220 This brand new research by Gallup says American trust in the mass media is at its lowest point

00:05:35.720 since 2016 and near a record low overall. Jeff Zucker has announced his immediate resignation

00:05:41.660 as the president of CNN. This comes amid an investigation into what Jeff Zucker calls

00:05:47.500 a consensual relationship. What happened and where CNN goes from here? You were caught

00:05:53.700 masturbating on camera. You since then have been on leave from CNN. Do I have all that right? 0.96

00:05:59.600 You got it all right. Sad to say. The biggest media story this weekend. It's the firing of Chris

00:06:04.680 Cuomo from this network, CNN. Late Wednesday, a lawyer contacted CNN with a sexual misconduct

00:06:10.360 complaint about Cuomo. Joining me now, the man who accused Don Lemon of sexual assault. His accuser

00:06:16.080 claims Lemon started rubbing himself. But the even bigger point, I think, is about what the press

00:06:21.000 is. Is it produced by reporters or by repeaters? Repeaters are the talk radio shouters. They're on TV

00:06:27.260 and radio telling the same story every day. President Trump. President Trump. President Trump.

00:06:31.060 Trump. Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Donald Trump

00:06:35.640 telling the same story every day. Same story every day. So what are, are we the reporters or the

00:06:40.960 repeaters? Obviously, the people at CNN are the repeaters. They repeat whatever the regime wants them

00:06:46.860 to say. And occasionally, occasionally they have to face some consequences from that because the

00:06:53.520 people can recognize that this is all ridiculous. They can see right through it. Not just because 0.94

00:06:59.120 they go to the gas pump and they realize, wait a second, I'm not saving money on gas. CNN lied to

00:07:03.620 me. I'm actually spending a lot more money on gas. That's not the only reason. I think the other

00:07:07.520 reason that people started to wake up to just how terrible the establishment media is, is because

00:07:13.500 of the internet. Because there was a period where people really did trust the establishment press,

00:07:20.840 those three news networks that you would get on TV. They would trust Walter Cronkite. I don't know

00:07:25.120 why they did. Walter Cronkite was a radical leftist. He was a member of the world federalists. He lost

00:07:30.960 us the Vietnam War. The guy was not balanced, not moderate, not centrist at all. He was far on the

00:07:38.920 left. And yet people said, oh, I trust Walter Cronkite. And now people say, whatever happened

00:07:43.320 to Walter Cronkite? Even some of the other ones later on in the 80s and the 90s, Tom Brokaw,

00:07:48.860 I trusted Tom Brokaw. These days though, I don't know. What changed? Is it that the news

00:07:54.260 anchors changed? No, I think it's that technology changed. I think the biggest reason that people

00:08:00.440 no longer have any faith in the establishment press is not even that the anchors changed all

00:08:07.140 that much. It's that people can now go on the internet and look it up. When you hear something

00:08:11.780 from the establishment press, instead of back in the old days, say before the mid 90s, when you'd hear

00:08:16.800 it and maybe you'd say, huh, that doesn't sound quite right. But anyway, I have no idea of figuring

00:08:20.440 out if it's true or not. So, okay, moving on with my life. Now, after the internet, you can say, hold

00:08:25.720 on, wait, gas is cheaper now under Joe Biden? Oh no, obviously it's not. It's actually 65% more

00:08:32.960 expensive. Okay. And this is true even for political issues that are less obvious than the price of gas.

00:08:38.260 This is why Dr. Fauci has had a very tough time over the past few years. Dr. Fauci has been in

00:08:44.660 office for 40 years now. He's outlasted, what, seven US presidents? I think he's on number seven

00:08:51.000 right now with Joe Biden. He's the highest paid federal employee, even though his record is one

00:08:56.420 of absolute failure, deception, intentional lies, incompetence, screw ups, going all the way back to

00:09:04.040 AIDS, all the way up through the 90s, especially right after the war on terror, he blew a bunch of 1.00

00:09:09.920 money on anthrax, didn't get a new anthrax vaccine, a ton of misadventures in Africa.

00:09:14.840 We haven't even gotten to COVID yet. Then he lies about where he was, the funding for COVID,

00:09:19.420 the type of research that created COVID most likely, gain of function research. He said,

00:09:23.980 we had nothing to do with that. We had nothing to do with the Wuhan Institute. We find out he funded

00:09:27.440 gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute. Then he was wrong. I mean, I could go on all day

00:09:31.480 about Dr. Fauci. How is it though, that only now he's getting called out for this stuff?

00:09:36.880 It's not because Fauci changed. It's not even because the American people changed.

00:09:41.560 I think it's just technology. We can go back. There was a clip that was going around this weekend

00:09:45.540 of Dr. Fauci from some 20 years ago. He was on the C-SPAN show, Washington Journal. I myself was

00:09:51.600 on that show just a couple of weeks ago. And Fauci, in his guidance on a flu vaccine,

00:09:57.920 contradicted his guidance on the COVID vaccine.

00:10:01.460 She's had the flu for 14 days. Should she get a flu shot?

00:10:04.020 Well, no, if she got the flu for 14 days, she's as protected as anybody can be because the best

00:10:08.660 vaccination is to get infected yourself. And if she really has the flu, if she really has the flu,

00:10:17.240 she definitely doesn't need a flu vaccine. If she really has the flu, she should not get it again. 0.75

00:10:22.820 She doesn't need it because it's the best. It's the most potent vaccination is getting infected

00:10:27.420 yourself. I don't know how clear I can be here. You do not need a vaccination if you have been

00:10:35.820 infected. Generally, just generally speak, you get infected, that's the best vaccination

00:10:40.960 until I want you to take my Fauci ouchie shot. And then never mind. Don't listen.

00:10:45.940 Don't listen to that man. What are you talking about that man? I'm you, Dr. Fauci. Shut up,

00:10:50.840 you. I don't want, you don't mislead these people. I want them to take my shot. 1.00

00:10:54.240 And so he's obviously contradicting himself on the chief central guidance of COVID of the past

00:11:01.700 two years, which was, I don't care if you've been infected. I don't care if you've been infected

00:11:04.380 twice. You have to get the shot. The shot will keep you from getting infected. The shot will keep 1.00

00:11:08.200 you from transmitting. It turns out neither of those things were true either. What changed?

00:11:13.820 Technology. Now we can go back and we see it. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

00:11:19.040 And it cracks that entire veneer, that entire facade of credibility. People know better.

00:11:24.980 But you know who doesn't know better? College kids. We really need to be able to get some sleep.

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00:12:54.580 Americans might know better. College students do not know better. There's a new poll out.

00:12:58.300 This is from NBC News Generation Labs. Surveyed more than 1,000 sophomore college students.

00:13:06.340 Survey revealed almost two-thirds of college Democrats would not room with a Trump supporter.

00:13:14.580 62 percent. So they probably would not or definitely would not room with someone

00:13:18.840 who supported Trump in 2020. What's the number for Republicans? Less than half of that.

00:13:24.620 Only 28 percent of college Republicans say they would refuse to room with a Dem,

00:13:30.680 someone who voted for Biden in 2020. What's the reasoning here? Well, here's what the Dem said.

00:13:36.300 They interviewed some of the people who participated in the survey. Democrat kid says, quote,

00:13:40.220 I could never live with someone who supported a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and sexist person. 0.93

00:13:44.820 I could possibly room with somebody who is a Republican. But when it comes down to it, 0.89

00:13:48.960 Donald Trump is not the average Republican candidate. So this kid is saying that same thing,

00:13:53.060 that all of the extremely closed-minded liberals who want to seem open-minded,

00:13:58.900 because that's one of the values that they pretend to appreciate. What they say is, look,

00:14:04.600 I'm open-minded. I could be friends with a Republican. Just not a Republican who ever

00:14:09.120 supports any winning candidate. But if you support, I don't know, Liz Cheney or something, then okay,

00:14:15.220 then maybe, maybe if you're a Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney Republican, I'll still probably hate your guts,

00:14:21.880 but maybe I'll talk to you. So they interview the Republican kid. The Republican kid says,

00:14:27.660 hold on, I'm going to do my sort of nice, moderate, wants to sound kind of acceptable college

00:14:35.300 Republican. A person's political views do not affect whether or not I would have a friendship

00:14:39.980 or relationship with them. Many of my friends have vastly different political views than I do,

00:14:43.900 but I do not let that affect our friendship. And I don't, I don't mean to make fun of this

00:14:48.320 hypothetical kid, because that's the nicer thing to say. That's the more reasonable thing to say.

00:14:55.260 Of course, you should, if you get assigned, you're got a Democrat in your dorm or whatever,

00:15:02.360 you should be able to get along. We're all Americans, right? Well, actually on college

00:15:06.660 campuses, there are a ton of foreigners, but we're talking about people here who voted in 2020.

00:15:10.500 Well, I guess some foreigners probably voted in 2020. But in any case, let's say for the sake of 0.98

00:15:14.900 argument, we're all Americans, we should be able to get along, even people who voted for the other

00:15:19.840 party. On the surface, this is crazy. On the surface here, the Republicans got it right,

00:15:26.560 Democrats got it wrong. However, though it is crazy to refuse to room in college for a year or two with

00:15:35.680 someone who has different political views. It is normal to prefer to live with people who have a

00:15:43.420 similar general view of the world that you do. That is normal. The lib here is in a very crazy,

00:15:53.520 extreme, backwards way, actually articulating a pretty reasonable concept, which is unity is our

00:16:01.540 strength. That's really what they're saying. Even though the libs love to say diversity is our

00:16:05.300 strength, no one actually believes that. Unity is our strength. Doesn't mean you can't include people

00:16:11.880 of different backgrounds. It's not a racial thing. It's not a sexual thing. It's not a,

00:16:18.660 whatever, you know, it's not a, I don't know, geographic thing.

00:16:23.580 But you do want to have, you want to have more in common with the people that you spend your time with

00:16:30.320 less than less. Of course you do. That's, that's what makes a community is things in common.

00:16:38.220 So yeah, actually the, the Democrat here in a kind of bizarro way is espousing a more normal point of

00:16:44.280 view. You want to, you don't want just total uniformity, but you want to share some basic

00:16:51.420 premises with people. And, and that can lead to much more fruitful conversation. If you get a bunch

00:16:56.560 of people in the room who don't share any basic premises at all, let's say you get a bunch of

00:17:01.460 people in the room and they don't even speak the same language, are you going to have a fruitful

00:17:04.380 conversation? No. If you get a bunch of people in the room who agree on basic stuff, what life is

00:17:10.620 kind of, what, what the purpose of society is kind of, really basic aspects of human nature,

00:17:19.080 you are much more likely to have a fruitful conversation and learn from one another.

00:17:23.420 The Democrats get that. The Democrats who preach that we need all sorts of diversity and nothing

00:17:28.820 in common and no standards whatsoever. They, they, the, in practice, what they say is, no,

00:17:35.600 you all have to agree with us. We need to have some things held in common. And ironically,

00:17:39.420 that's a very conservative point of view. The conservatives used to know that before the

00:17:42.840 conservatives bought the, the BS from the Dems, hook, line, and sinker, sinker back in the sixties,

00:17:47.900 when the Democrats upended all the standards and norms and traditions. There's actually something to

00:17:52.860 learn here. The Republicans have to be willing to room with Democrats because there are only like

00:17:56.700 seven Republicans on any college campus. And the Democrats have the political advantage of being

00:18:01.000 able to ostracize and exclude people because they are the vast majority, 90% plus of college campuses.

00:18:07.720 But maybe we can learn something from them. Maybe actually we need to be a little more muscular

00:18:12.740 in setting standards and norms of behavior and saying, no, we're not going to allow your crazy BS

00:18:19.300 to come in and destroy our society. Speaking of ostracism of conservatives on campus, there's a very

00:18:24.200 nice piece published by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. And it was on this,

00:18:32.640 this hubbub that occurred with little old me, little old me, whom everybody loves at the University of

00:18:37.880 St. Thomas some months ago. Apparently I had been invited to the University of St. Thomas. I actually

00:18:43.180 didn't even really know very much about this invitation. And then the school, unbeknownst to me,

00:18:47.860 refused to let me come speak. And the irony of it is that the University of St. Thomas is a Catholic 0.91

00:18:53.360 school and they wouldn't let me come speak because I hold Catholic views on the social issues.

00:19:01.380 Abortion, transgenderism, sex, all this kind of stuff. Because I hold to Catholic teaching,

00:19:08.080 they wouldn't let me on campus because they wanted me to hold to liberal teaching.

00:19:11.380 And so FIRE, the Individual Rights in Education group, has a headline,

00:19:16.200 University of St. Thomas promises free speech, yet practices censorship by denying college

00:19:22.640 Republicans' request to host Michael Knowles. First paragraph, the University of St. Thomas

00:19:29.840 harmonizes free speech with its religious mission, laudably promising to give its full blessing to

00:19:34.620 students' expressive rights as part of its Catholic identity. Yet when the university's

00:19:38.920 college Republicans chapter sought to make good on the promise by requesting to host political

00:19:42.860 commentator Michael Knowles, St. Thomas rejected the request because administrators didn't like

00:19:47.100 his views, thereby betraying the school's commitment to free speech by violating the group's right to

00:19:51.280 host conservative speakers. In FIRE's June 28th letter to St. Thomas, we explained how the university's

00:19:57.940 viewpoint-based rejection of Knowles violates students' expressive rights to host sinful,

00:20:05.480 satanic, or even blasphemous speakers.

00:20:08.500 So I want to put a pause there. I am actually grateful to FIRE for defending me and yelling at

00:20:15.020 St. Thomas for rejecting me. But respectfully, that's not what happened. The school's rejection of me

00:20:25.240 coming to campus did not violate students' rights to host sinful, satanic, or blasphemous speakers.

00:20:35.000 Thank you very much. No. Gosh, with a defense like this, who needs opponents?

00:20:41.820 And I see what they're trying to say. FIRE is trying to say, you have a right to say anything

00:20:46.000 you want on campus. But one, no, you don't. And that's a very extreme libertarian view, but it's

00:20:52.460 not true. You don't have a right to say whatever you want on campus. But two, the content of my speech

00:20:58.820 is not sinful or satanic or blasphemous. It's the opposite, actually. The school rejected me

00:21:05.600 because my speech was not sinful or satanic or blasphemous. The school rejected me because my

00:21:12.140 speech was the opposite. It was a Christian speech. It was informed by Catholic principles. And the 0.97

00:21:18.140 Catholic school rejected me because the Catholic school has become sinful, satanic, and blasphemous 1.00

00:21:21.960 because they prefer liberalism and leftism to Christianity. The conservatives have fallen into 0.57

00:21:31.320 a big, big trap here, okay? Free speech absolutism. I wrote a whole book on this, so I won't belabor the

00:21:40.280 point. Free speech absolutism is not a conservative value. Academic freedom is not a conservative value.

00:21:47.180 It never has been. Those were always left-wing values. The modern conservative movement began

00:21:52.720 with William F. Buckley Jr. writing a book called God and Man at Yale, The Superstitions of Academic

00:21:57.560 Freedom. In that book, he called academic freedom a hoax. The Catholic school has every right and,

00:22:03.900 frankly, obligation to not allow certain ideas on campus, to tell teachers, no, you're not allowed to

00:22:10.000 teach. Nonsense. People go to a Catholic school to get a Catholic education. All education has to

00:22:17.080 have limits and has to be somewhat coercive because you've got to teach kids something.

00:22:22.520 That's the point. You go into college, theoretically ignorant, and then you come out and you're supposed 0.92

00:22:27.400 to know certain things and have a certain view of the world and be educated, which means brought up.

00:22:31.140 Now, usually what happens is the opposite. Kids go into college knowing a lot of stuff,

00:22:34.260 and then they leave more ignorant than they left. And this is actually even backed up by certain

00:22:38.360 social scientific surveys. But it's also backed up by common sense. We all know that that happens.

00:22:42.420 So, no, you can't teach everything. You can't have a school that teaches at the same time two

00:22:49.000 plus two equals four and two plus two equals five. You can't at the same time have a school teach that

00:22:53.520 good stuff is good and also that good stuff is evil. You can't have those two things. You've got

00:22:59.560 to pick. You've got to have limits here. So I appreciate the defense from FIRE. I really do.

00:23:05.140 So tactically, I'm really glad they're defending me. But the reasoning that they're using here

00:23:10.940 is not correct. Now, I want to talk about something I talk about a lot on this show.

00:23:17.080 You know the squishes? I'm talking about the Adam Kinzinger's, the former Congress ladies of the 0.83

00:23:23.600 world such as Liz Cheney, the gelatinous rhino invertebrates who disintegrate under the very slightest

00:23:31.900 pressure. It's the kind of behavior you would never dream of engaging in or modeling for your son or

00:23:37.160 daughter. And yet, the numbers are in. Most of you squished this very morning. In fact, some of you

00:23:44.000 are squishing right now. Whoa, Michael, that's a slap in the face. Hold up. Maybe, maybe, but it's not

00:23:48.940 for me. If you are still not shaving with a Jeremy's razor and you're still using one made by a company

00:23:55.580 that has called you toxic, you are the one shaming yourself. Okay? You're shaming yourself here. And

00:24:02.940 you are funding the neo-Marxist gender ideologues who wish that you would just disappear down and 0.80

00:24:08.920 drain under your unwanted stubble. Do not squish on your values. Switch to Jeremy's Razors. Get your

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00:24:19.660 The thesis of my book that came out a year ago is that conservatives are wrong about free speech.

00:24:26.620 We actually need to put many more limits on free speech. We bought all the libs' stupid arguments 1.00

00:24:31.620 about academic freedom and the total, I'm an absolute free speech defender, whatever. And it 1.00

00:24:36.000 was all lib stuff and it's totally messed us up and we got to get rid of it. And that was the thesis of

00:24:40.960 my book a year ago. And I'm not saying it was prophetic. Okay? I'm not saying that I told you so.

00:24:49.020 I'm not saying it was an example of Nostradamus with his crystal ball. But this is becoming the

00:24:54.280 issue right now. And you're seeing it, especially down in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis passes this

00:25:00.320 great law to put those ideas into practice in Florida schools and say, no, there's no such thing

00:25:07.020 as academic freedom here. There's no such thing as free speech absolutism. You don't get to teach

00:25:11.360 critical race theory in our schools. You don't get to teach the weird gender stuff to the little kids. 1.00

00:25:15.540 We're going to put limits. Okay? And the Squishers are furious about this. David French, 0.90

00:25:21.080 who was a kind of conservative columnist, fairly prominent one, always a little more on the

00:25:26.540 libertarian side. Now I think he's pretty firmly a liberal or left-wing columnist. I must say

00:25:32.920 communist. Freudian slip. No, he's clearly center left at least. But he's attacking DeSantis for this.

00:25:38.920 And he says, the DeSantis attack on the First Amendment illustrates how the word conservative

00:25:44.040 lost meaning. For 20 plus years, conservatives attacked campus speech codes, upholding free

00:25:50.100 speech as a core value. Now DeSantis passes his own speech codes, and it's conservative to support them?

00:25:57.160 Yes. Yes, it is. You got it, David. You figured it out. And by the way, I got to give David credit

00:26:02.920 here. He even admits that the idea of free speech absolutism and academic freedom as a conservative

00:26:09.780 value is only about 20 years old. That's what he says. He says for 20 plus years, conservatives were

00:26:15.440 really against campus speech codes, and were really against these incursions on standards and norms,

00:26:24.440 or rather the creation of these standards and norms. Right? What about more than 20 years ago?

00:26:29.540 Did conservatism just get invented 20 years ago? No. It's a much longer tradition. Even post-war

00:26:34.500 conservatism has been around for 70 years, and the conservative tradition is many centuries old.

00:26:38.980 And for virtually all of that time, conservatives have not been the defenders of saying whatever you

00:26:46.180 want whenever you want to say it in any context. No way. Conservatives are the defenders of chivalry

00:26:51.260 and the truth and virtue and education, which necessarily requires limits. That's what it's about.

00:26:57.560 David is admitting here that it was these squishes or the hyper super duper lulbertarians or whatever

00:27:04.660 you want to call them, who are the ones who perverted conservatism. And that's gone on for

00:27:09.380 about 20 years, and it's been a complete disaster. And then you saw a reaction against that from the

00:27:14.160 actual conservatives. You saw a reaction against that? Really, the Trump candidacy is a reaction

00:27:19.800 against that kind of perversion of conservatism. And now the squishes who have been pushed to the

00:27:27.760 side again, they've all left, and now they've sided with the libs. I'm glad. We're returning to normal.

00:27:32.860 Nature is healing. Nature is healing. That's what they said during COVID. Nature is healing.

00:27:38.900 The conservatives are returning to standards and norms. We were the virus. Yeah.

00:27:44.180 DeSantis, by the way, absolutely crushing it. Forget about the education stuff. Forget about the

00:27:50.660 curriculum reform. Ron DeSantis just announced the arrest of 20 election fraudsters going back to

00:27:58.400 the 2020 election. Governor Ron DeSantis, here we are, the press release right here.

00:28:04.280 In 2020, Florida ran an efficient, transparent election that avoided the major problems we saw in

00:28:09.760 other states. At the same time, the election was not perfect, which is why we continue our efforts to

00:28:14.120 ensure the integrity of our elections. Our new election crimes office, love that, election crimes

00:28:19.520 office, has sprung into action to hold individuals accountable for voter fraud. Today's actions send a

00:28:26.300 clear signal to those who are thinking about ballot harvesting or fraudulently voting. If you commit an

00:28:31.240 elections crime, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Love that. It's just so weird

00:28:36.660 that he would prosecute these 20 people because I was told there was no election fraud.

00:28:42.320 The Libs reliably told me that there was no election fraud in 2020. So how are these 20 people

00:28:48.960 being prosecuted by the election crimes division? In Florida, which was a state that really didn't

00:28:56.100 have a lot of election problems. Certainly not like Georgia, not like Pennsylvania, not like Wisconsin,

00:29:01.780 where there's all sorts of weird stuff. And the election officials violated the state constitution

00:29:06.380 in the case of Pennsylvania and where people were not allowed, the election poll watchers were not

00:29:11.980 allowed to look at the count going on. And the counting just oddly stopped in the middle of the

00:29:16.360 night, went on for weeks then afterward. It's just a lot of weird stuff. What's that about? What's so

00:29:23.060 great here is that DeSantis is doing all the right things politically on all those regular political

00:29:30.440 issues on education, on transing the kids, on pro-life. He could maybe move a little further

00:29:36.840 on pro-life, but he's moving in that direction. On woke corporations when he took on Disney. He's doing

00:29:44.740 the right thing on all of these political issues. But election fraud, that is a meta-political issue.

00:29:51.960 That's the politics of politics. That's the rules about how our political system actually works.

00:30:00.580 Because let's say you get all the people on your side on all of those regular political issues,

00:30:05.700 but you've got election fraud. You don't have integrity in your electoral system.

00:30:10.320 Well, then all that popularity and a buck 50 will get you a cup of coffee. It doesn't really matter.

00:30:14.120 In Biden's economy, you need $5 to get a cup of coffee, but the premise is the same. The point is

00:30:18.680 the same. If you don't have a stable political order where the rules are clear and everything's

00:30:24.740 fair and square, then it doesn't matter how many people you went over to your side because the

00:30:28.020 cheaters are going to rig it all the time. So DeSantis is going in there. And this is really

00:30:31.380 important too, because right now it looks like Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee

00:30:36.540 in 2024, especially after the Mar-a-Lago raid. And some Trump supporters are criticizing DeSantis for

00:30:42.280 not coming out strongly enough against it. He tweeted about it. He said it was awful. He said it was

00:30:47.580 banana republic stuff, but the Trump supporters want action, especially because Trump and DeSantis

00:30:53.200 seem to be the leading candidates right now in 2024. So for DeSantis to make this an important

00:30:59.980 political issue for him is a great appeal to a lot of Trump voters. Because, and this gets back to

00:31:08.940 Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and all this nonsense. Your view of what happened in 2020

00:31:16.200 2020 is a good indicator of what you believe about politics generally. If you insist that 2020 was

00:31:26.320 the most secure election ever, it was totally kosher above board, there was no rigging, there

00:31:29.880 was no fraud, there was no nothing, how dare you deny the election? If you say all that stuff,

00:31:35.920 you are either a lib or a squish. You are not, I don't know any serious conservative who really says 0.95

00:31:40.660 that. If you admit, okay, yeah, they changed all the rules. You don't need to go all the way to

00:31:47.700 Dominion voting machines rigged it or, you know, aliens from outer space or anything. You can,

00:31:52.640 if you just observe, I think the undeniable fact that the libs changed all the rules beforehand

00:31:58.140 and got caught doing some shady stuff on election day too, or rather election month because they

00:32:03.980 extended it. If you, if you admit that, I think you're probably a little bit more on the conservative

00:32:10.760 team here. Because that obviously happened. There was fraud. There was rigging. Of course there was.

00:32:19.960 And DeSantis is saying that too. We got to get that in order. Why did the Republicans lose the

00:32:24.240 Georgia Senate races? Remember there was on election day, those, the two Republicans, Kelly

00:32:31.040 Loeffler and David Perdue, they lose in, in Georgia. But then there's this kind of runoff

00:32:35.740 election just a few weeks later. And a lot of Republicans didn't show up. Some people blame

00:32:40.880 Trump for that because he was contesting that and he said, it's useless. Forget about the vote.

00:32:45.020 But he did then encourage people to go out and vote. Regardless, conservatives were depressed and

00:32:50.560 discouraged. And they said, oh, I guess my vote doesn't really matter because the people conducting

00:32:54.380 these elections are ignoring a lot of the rules or changing the rules. So you've got, it is,

00:32:59.440 it is priority number one, really more than any of the individual issues, to say, we need to trust

00:33:05.540 our election system. And you know how you have faith in your election system? You take the people

00:33:09.660 who break the rules on elections and you throw them in the can. That's how you have faith in them.

00:33:16.120 And frankly, even more than these people who committed election fraud themselves,

00:33:20.060 I want the ballot harvesters. I want the Democrat operatives. I want, if they in any way violated any

00:33:26.020 law, including jaywalking, I want the book thrown at them. Because they are frankly the bigger problem

00:33:32.520 even than the people that allow this stuff, that allow themselves to be used for the purposes of

00:33:38.480 election fraud. It's so important because the issue, the issue when it comes to the election stuff is not

00:33:45.040 what decision should we make about this issue or that issue. The question becomes who makes the

00:33:51.300 decisions. Americans know better. Americans know a lot better than this. Okay. If you talk to the

00:33:58.000 elites, really in both parties, but especially in the Democrat party, and you tune into all the

00:34:03.300 establishment news, you're going to hear illegal immigration is great. Nobody's illegal. It's not

00:34:10.540 even illegal. I mean, it's against the law, but they're future undocumented Americans and they're our

00:34:16.500 strength. And we need more of that diversity. Even though the blue city mayors, when Texas ships

00:34:22.880 all the illegal aliens up to them, they say, no, we don't want this. This is a strain on our resources, 0.99

00:34:26.280 but send them to Texas. It's our strength. We need more of that. We have 2 million a year. Let's

00:34:31.320 get 3 million or 5 million a year. The majority of Americans say otherwise. According to an NPR

00:34:38.840 Ipsos poll, the majority of Americans consider illegal immigration to be an invasion. An invasion.

00:34:46.020 In response to the statement that the situation at the southern border represents an invasion,

00:34:51.460 the majority of respondents said yes. 28% answer that that statement is completely true.

00:34:58.720 25% say that statement is somewhat true. There was one time I got into a real debate with a

00:35:04.860 conservative friend of mine over the use of the word invasion. He said, obviously, what's going

00:35:09.680 on at the southern border, it just, it is an invasion. He said, oh, that's outrageous. That's

00:35:13.480 hyperbolic. That's not, it's not true. You shouldn't say that. I said, what's not true about it? What's an

00:35:18.720 invasion? An invasion is when a large number of people make an incursion into another group of

00:35:25.720 people's territory. That's what's happening. You don't need to have a formal uniformed army to invade

00:35:30.960 something. You just go. Just a large group goes and goes into someone else's territory. That's an

00:35:35.280 invasion. I don't know how else to describe what's going on at the southern border. And you will hear

00:35:42.560 from the elites on NBC and CBS and New York Times or whatever, they're going to say, you can't use

00:35:49.160 that language. That's the extreme fringe, fascist, neo-Nazi, racist, all the stuff they call us.

00:35:57.400 That's what they say. No, actually, that's what the majority of Americans say, according to a poll

00:36:01.860 from NPR, a very left-wing outlet. Everyone agrees. Poll after poll, there was a poll down

00:36:09.140 probably four or five years ago from Harvard Harris poll that came out and it asked what

00:36:15.580 Americans thought about the number of immigrants who should be coming in. The majority of respondents

00:36:20.400 said that we should not only not increase the number of immigrants who come in, but that we should

00:36:25.180 drastically decrease the number of immigrants. Not just the illegal immigrants, the legal immigrants

00:36:29.960 too. Because don't forget, we've got two million illegal immigrants crossing this year. It'll probably 1.00

00:36:32.980 be actually a lot more than that. We also have a million legal immigrants who come in. The vast

00:36:37.820 majority of respondents who were not told what the immigration levels actually are. They were just

00:36:43.100 asked, what would you like the level to be? 200,000, 500,000, a million, two million.

00:36:48.660 The vast majority wanted to drastically reduce the number of immigrants. So everyone basically agrees on 1.00

00:36:54.680 this. Why does nothing get done? Why does nothing get done? Because there's a difference between what

00:37:01.360 the people want and how they would govern themselves if they were in control and what the regime gets

00:37:09.220 to do. And when we use that word regime, I'm not just talking about Joe Biden. I'm not just talking

00:37:12.780 about the Democrats. I'm talking about the way that political power is actually exercised in America,

00:37:18.060 which is different than what the constitution says. And it's different from what you learn in

00:37:22.200 Schoolhouse Rock. And it involves a lot of other interests that you don't see laid out in your

00:37:26.700 civics class. It involves the Chamber of Commerce. And it involves a weird collection of the media and

00:37:34.240 international institutions and the financial sector and a lot of people who represent different trade

00:37:41.060 interests and entrenched bureaucrats and academia and all of that together. Majority of the American

00:37:48.560 people want something on such a basic issue as who gets to come into the country. And yet it never

00:37:53.540 gets done. It never gets done. Why is that? Because we need to pay more attention to the meta-political

00:37:59.220 issues. Who has power? How is that power exercised? Speaking of invasions, there is a crazy story

00:38:06.600 coming out of Russia that's not getting nearly enough play. Daria Dugina is the 29-year-old daughter

00:38:13.180 of a very prominent Russian philosopher. She was assassinated over the weekend. She died after the

00:38:20.560 SUV that she was driving exploded 20 miles west of Moscow. The SUV was not her own. The SUV belonged

00:38:29.260 to her father, Alexander Dugin, who is a philosopher fairly well known. And he's gotten a lot of publicity

00:38:36.240 in the West. And in the West, they refer to him as Putin's brain, as basically the secret puppet

00:38:45.000 master behind Vladimir Putin's regime. I don't know that that's a fair description. Actually, if you look

00:38:50.640 at Alexander Dugin's role on the ground in Russia, I don't think that's really fair at all. He was

00:38:56.300 pulled out of his professorship at a university by the political powers. I don't think there's any

00:39:02.540 evidence he's even met Vladimir Putin. You don't see a real long correspondence between the two men.

00:39:07.840 So it may be the case that his role in the Putin regime is being exaggerated. But Alexander Dugin is

00:39:14.800 very much in favor of the invasion of Ukraine. Alexander Dugin is very much in favor of a much

00:39:19.640 more muscular Russian foreign policy. So there's no doubt about that, that there is some alignment.

00:39:25.540 Although apparently he and Putin have had differences of opinion as well. Dugin's even criticized Putin.

00:39:32.540 Either way, do we defend this kind of stuff? We don't know who killed,

00:39:37.500 who was trying to kill Dugin probably, and who ended up killing his daughter.

00:39:42.380 It could have been Ukraine or Western allies, though Ukraine is denying it.

00:39:48.100 It could have been Russians who are anti-Putin. It could have been domestic Russians who are anti-Putin.

00:39:53.500 I don't really know, and I don't have the expertise for it, and that's not even what I'm most

00:39:58.240 interested in. The thing that I'm most interested in is the reaction from some of the commentariat

00:40:03.240 here in America. Because ironically, the people who most seem to argue against these things in

00:40:12.040 the abstract, the people who are most likely to condemn political attacks on philosophers or

00:40:17.720 commentators or journalists. Alexander Dugin's daughter, Daria, was a political commentator of

00:40:23.120 sorts herself. They're the ones most likely to embrace it in practice. There's a woman who's

00:40:30.220 written for the Washington Post and the New York Times, Julia Ioff, who was retweeting someone else

00:40:35.580 who was quoting a verse of the Bible. And she tweeted out about this. He who sows the wind shall reap

00:40:42.160 the whirlwind. Hosea chapter eight, verse seven. A photo of Alexander Dugin, author of the Russian

00:40:50.260 World Ideology, driving Putin's armies in Ukraine at the scene of the explosion that ripped up the car

00:40:55.780 he was supposed to be in and killed his daughter and said. Really dark stuff because you see the guy

00:41:00.100 he's looking, his hands on his head. Could you imagine? Regardless of what you think about Russia

00:41:04.560 or Ukraine or war, or no matter how awful you think this guy is, this man is witnessing people

00:41:10.280 blow up his daughter. Almost certainly because they don't like his politics. And he's watching that

00:41:16.940 happen. And you have liberal journalists basically giggling about it.

00:41:25.100 What happened to the sacred right of free speech? What happened to the free marketplace of ideas?

00:41:30.400 What happened to we should never attack writers or commentators or philosophers? Certainly.

00:41:37.560 What happened to all of that? Well, no, but we don't like this guy. This guy's really bad.

00:41:41.500 He's the, he's, look at what Julia Ioff says. She goes, he, his ideology is driving Putin's armies

00:41:48.880 in Ukraine. What? I don't even know that that's true. But this guy, whatever you think of this guy,

00:41:56.100 you might say he's got the worst ideology in the whole wide world. But you, he's not the one launching

00:42:00.860 the armies into Ukraine. You want to blow up Putin, go blow up Putin. This guy's, he's a writer. 0.98

00:42:06.060 And yet you've got the very liberals who defend that free marketplace of ideas. They're the ones,

00:42:12.320 as always, as always, because we know in practice that the libs don't believe any of that crap. 0.53

00:42:16.280 The only people who believe that stuff about the sacred free marketplace of ideas where you have 0.82

00:42:21.140 the right to say whatever you want, however blasphemous, however this, however that. It's

00:42:25.780 just the, it's the conservatives who got hoodwinked. It's just the squishes who believed the liberal 0.98

00:42:30.760 propaganda in the 1960s and, and then conceded everything and surrendered and let the libs

00:42:37.860 take over society. Would you defend this? I don't think so. I don't think people would defend

00:42:44.560 blowing up a writer's daughter. I don't think so. Speaking of coercive liberalism, this story,

00:42:50.140 this is really spooky. This is a Daily Wire exclusive. Vanguard is, I think it's the largest

00:42:57.500 provider of mutual funds in the world, second largest provider of ETFs after BlackRock,

00:43:02.580 which also has gone just as woke as Vanguard. Vanguard just had a training that they subjected

00:43:08.060 their employees to. Vanguard has $7 trillion of assets under management. When Vanguard says they

00:43:13.340 want something, the companies under management generally do it. And Vanguard had a diversity,

00:43:18.880 equity, and inclusion training to get all of the white men associated with Vanguard and the

00:43:24.600 companies that it invests in to get on board with the woke philosophy.

00:43:29.560 This research that I'm about to present to you is actually an act of accidental exclusion or active

00:43:37.900 inclusion, depending on how you look at it. In terms of us really ensuring and partnering with some of

00:43:45.140 the leading companies in the field to ensure that white men, white male managers, are actively included in the DEI conversation.

00:43:58.440 And that's the piece of research, and that's the critical lever that we're here to talk about today.

00:44:03.900 Engaging white male managers in advancing diversity and inclusion. We partnered with, as I mentioned,

00:44:11.480 some of the foremost thinkers in the DEI field and are so thrilled at Vanguard for being one of our leading sponsors.

00:44:22.260 I'm going to translate that from all that woke gibberish that you just heard. When she says they need,

00:44:27.340 the white men in the middle management, they need to be actively included to get on board. What that means is

00:44:34.200 that the companies need to force the white guys into a re-education camp, presumably one being led by this woman.

00:44:40.540 She says the white men need to be held accountable.

00:44:42.780 There's clear expectations set for DEI prioritization, engagements, and outcomes.

00:44:51.700 There's clarity on how both senior leaders and middle managers will and should be held accountable.

00:44:58.120 That we reinforce accountability through performance management process and feedback channels.

00:45:03.360 Sort of added commentary here, I would say, just like we do for business results that are so important, right?

00:45:11.600 We need accountability through the feedback channels, and just like we have for their actual productivity,

00:45:18.300 we're going to do that for this woke ideology. The translation is fire the white guys if they 0.98

00:45:23.300 don't pledge fealty to this new woke racial hierarchy that people like this crazy lady are pushing. 1.00

00:45:29.460 And then finally, finally, you have the insistence by Vanguard that white men be held to uncomfortable 0.96

00:45:37.040 criticism. Do be aware of implicit biases and work to understand your blind spots. This is one of

00:45:45.980 the ways that inclusion training can help us all. No, I'm sorry. Do learn how to listen and accept

00:45:54.460 criticism with grace, even if it's uncomfortable. A growth mindset principle in many ways is if you're

00:46:04.680 growing, it's likely uncomfortable. This isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be hard.

00:46:12.020 This isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be hard, especially to those white men. The translation 0.98

00:46:17.220 here is the white guys are going to be held to a different, harsher standard, and we're all supposed to

00:46:21.840 go along with this. Okay, this is being pushed, not by the government even. This is being pushed

00:46:28.340 by what we call the regime, the blob, the establishment, the power structure. It's being

00:46:34.620 pushed by a company with $7 trillion in assets under management. When they say they want something like

00:46:39.340 this, they get it from their companies. This is what conservatives have to push back against.

00:46:44.360 And if all conservatives can offer is what the same kind of platitudes they've offered for the last

00:46:49.040 20 years, which is just get the government out of my life, just less government, then we're not going

00:46:55.060 to do anything. Because the power that's really being wielded in our society is being wielded largely

00:47:00.180 outside of the government, by the propagandists in the media, by the insane ideologues in corporate 0.63

00:47:07.080 America, by the lunatics in academia. That's where it's being wielded. Some people get it that we've got

00:47:14.240 to fight them on those grounds. That's what DeSantis is doing with the education bill in Florida,

00:47:20.260 that you see attacks on woke corporations for that matter too. That's going to be the way of

00:47:25.280 the future. If we do not lean into that, we will not conserve a damn thing. The rest of the show is

00:47:32.680 continuing now. You don't want to miss it. If you're not a member, okay, in the special member block where

00:47:38.320 we get rid of the hoi polloi, it's just us. It's very exclusive with the creme de la creme where we

00:47:43.860 can speak a little bit more freely than we can on certain social media channels. If you're not going

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 22, 2022

Ep. 1072 - Crackdown On Election Fraudsters

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