The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1077 - The Black Lines Of Corruption

00:00:00.000 Three months after the 2020 election, the Libs published an article in Time Magazine

00:00:05.200 explaining how they rigged it. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020

00:00:12.580 election. In a way, Time Magazine wrote, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind

00:00:20.240 the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.

00:00:25.460 Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists

00:00:30.360 and business titans. Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to

00:00:35.580 change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.

00:00:41.260 They fended off voter suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers, and got

00:00:45.920 millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media

00:00:50.500 companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies

00:00:55.700 to fight viral smears. This piece is thousands of words long. It's worth reading all of them.

00:01:02.140 But the short version is that the Libs rigged the election. Now, of course, you're not allowed to say

00:01:07.200 that. If you say that, you will be called a conspiracy theorist and a kook and an election denier

00:01:14.100 and an insurrectionist. But they're allowed to say it. They boast about it in what Mike Anton calls

00:01:21.580 the celebration parallax. When the Libs talk about rigging the 2020 election, it's a wonderful thing

00:01:28.420 to be celebrated. Look, guys, we did it. Look how we did it. When conservatives repeat the Libs' own

00:01:34.500 words back to them, it becomes a dangerous conspiracy theory and a threat to democracy. But they did rig the

00:01:42.480 election. And they're doing it again. And this time, they're not waiting until three months after

00:01:48.460 they do it to admit that they did it. They're admitting it right now. And they don't need

00:01:53.820 thousands of words to admit it. In fact, they barely used any words, as you can see from the

00:02:00.500 search warrant affidavit that Biden's DOJ used to justify the raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

00:02:07.320 Just black, black, black, all redacted text. There must be some really powerful stuff in here

00:02:13.500 to justify such an unprecedented attack on a former president and current chief political rival.

00:02:20.860 But I can't know that for sure because all of the crucial information in the affidavit is redacted.

00:02:26.560 There are so many blank pages in this affidavit. I'm thinking of suing for plagiarism.

00:02:31.600 On top of the stonewalling, they released the affidavit on Friday because, as with all Friday 0.93

00:02:37.360 news dumps, they hoped to kill the story over the weekend and start again with some news stories on

00:02:42.340 Monday. But this story is ongoing. And it's going to keep ongoing until Election Day 2024. And the

00:02:49.980 story is simple as can be. The entrenched powers are going to do every single thing that they can,

00:02:56.620 norms and procedures and rule of law be damned, to rig the 2024 election and ensure that the people

00:03:04.700 don't have the chance to send Donald Trump back to the White House. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:03:09.780 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Friday is from Someday Glory,

00:03:22.260 who says, this is how the conversation went between the FBI and Facebook. Hey, Mark, can you help us

00:03:28.280 hurt Trump? Yeah, you're going to say anything if we spy using our software? Do we get a copy? Of

00:03:35.260 course. Then no, that's probably how it actually went. That's probably true. I think that version is a lot

00:03:41.120 closer to the truth than anything we're being told, certainly by the FBI and the DOJ, really by any of the

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00:04:49.080 just like Beyonce. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. They're doing it. They're rigging

00:04:54.020 the election. They're rigging the 2024 election in real time, and they're not even trying to conceal

00:04:58.220 it. Well, they're concealing it in the sense that they're concealing almost this entire

00:05:01.880 affidavit. Just look at all this black text. Everything's just blacked out. But after knocking

00:05:09.120 down Trump's door at Mar-a-Lago, and after investigating his businesses for tax fraud or whatever,

00:05:15.700 now, they're also just calling to indict him. So the New York Times editorial board

00:05:19.460 has this piece, just ran August 26th. Donald Trump is not above the law.

00:05:27.040 And they talk about how Trump's unprecedented assault on the integrity of American democracy

00:05:34.420 requires a criminal investigation. And then they need to indict Trump,

00:05:40.160 and then they need to just do anything they can to stop this guy from running for president.

00:05:44.980 Now, they can do whatever they want. They can kick down his door. They can take all of his papers.

00:05:51.840 They can arrest his campaign staff. They can arrest him. They can put him in prison.

00:05:57.480 Donald Trump is going to run for president. Barring some unforeseen health problem,

00:06:04.380 unless he gets Clintoned or something like that. Sorry, unless he falls into a depression and commits

00:06:08.580 suicide, God forbid. The guy is going to run. He's telling everyone around him that he's 200%

00:06:13.340 going to run for president. And they can't stop him. Whether they use the Presidential Records Act

00:06:17.680 or the Espionage Act or whatever other nonsense they're trying to bring up, whether they throw

00:06:21.400 him in jail, the guy can still run. Let's not forget the 1920 presidential election. Eugene Debs,

00:06:27.040 who is the most prominent socialist in America, was arrested by his political rival. Eugene Debs,

00:06:32.400 obviously, had never been a president himself. But he was running as a socialist. Even from prison,

00:06:37.080 he got 7% of the vote. About 6.8%, I think it was. Donald Trump obviously would get a much higher

00:06:42.180 percentage of the vote. So he'll run. He's going to run, I think, from pretty much anywhere. And

00:06:47.840 that's what's driving the libs nuts. And that's why they're throwing spaghetti at the wall. 1.00

00:06:51.040 Had Donald Trump not intimated that he was going to run again, I think they would let the guy sail

00:06:56.320 off into the sunset. Someone pointed out yesterday, some blue check on Twitter said, gosh, can you believe

00:07:01.400 it? Donald Trump, he's under investigation for tax fraud and for classified document possession and

00:07:07.120 for this, that, and the other thing. He said, can you believe? And he's the Republican frontrunner in

00:07:11.800 2024. Right. I think maybe you've got it backwards. Why do you think he's under investigation for all

00:07:19.780 those things? Because the FBI and the DOJ regularly prosecute cases of ex-presidents having classified

00:07:28.440 documents? No, of course not. They don't go after Obama for that. They didn't go after Clinton for

00:07:34.580 that kind of stuff. Bill Clinton stole not just documents, he stole the furniture out of the

00:07:37.600 White House. They went after him? I don't think so. They didn't go after LBJ. They didn't go after

00:07:41.600 Richard Nixon on that, for goodness sakes. No, they don't. They're just throwing spaghetti at the

00:07:45.640 wall because he is the Republican frontrunner and they don't want him to be the guy. Federal law

00:07:51.180 enforcement right now is being used as the private police for the Democrats. The FBI is basically

00:07:55.820 admitting that. So after Mark Zuckerberg shows up on Joe Rogan's show and he says, hey, don't blame

00:08:00.560 us for censoring Trump. Don't blame us for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. We got a call from

00:08:05.660 the FBI and we just went along with it. After that, the FBI had to respond. It was such an explosive

00:08:11.420 allegation. Here's the response. The FBI routinely notifies US private sector entities, including social

00:08:17.720 media providers, of potential threat information so that they can decide how to better defend against

00:08:22.680 threats. And the FBI cannot ask or direct companies to take action on information received. We just

00:08:28.040 kind of, you know, we just kind of let them know. So this is an admission of guilt. If the FBI did not

00:08:34.160 pressure Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, they would have just said it. Said, we never

00:08:38.840 told Facebook about this. We never told Facebook to suppress this thing. But instead they're saying,

00:08:43.320 look, okay, look, sometimes we call up social media companies. We say, hey, hey, we sure wouldn't like

00:08:49.200 this story to get out there. Hey, that's a nice big tech platform you got there. Sure would be a

00:08:53.220 shame if something happened to it. Sure would be a shame if you got prosecuted, wouldn't it be?

00:08:56.900 So anyway, maybe let's suppress this little story over here. And that's obviously what happened.

00:09:01.180 And this was particularly significant because after the 2020 election, you had, according to one

00:09:07.260 survey, 17% of Biden voters who said that had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop story,

00:09:12.800 they wouldn't have voted for Biden, which certainly would have swung the election

00:09:16.160 to Donald Trump. Unless you had a lot more, a lot more shenanigans in the weeks that it took

00:09:22.060 to count the ballots. Unless you had a lot more shenanigans in say Pennsylvania, where they just

00:09:26.120 sent out widespread mail-ins in violation of state, the state constitution. Even with all of that,

00:09:30.820 if you swing 17% of Biden voters to Trump, I don't see how they could even pretend that Joe Biden won

00:09:35.440 the election. So Facebook did that. And what we're now learning is actually the FBI did that.

00:09:41.860 They did that in 2020. You don't think they're going to do that in 2024? They already are.

00:09:46.160 They're kicking down the guy's door. Of course, they're going to do that.

00:09:50.000 And it's not because they're even after Trump. It's not because of the Trump is so special.

00:09:55.580 You know, they're all pretending that Trump is Hitler or something like that. Let's not forget

00:09:58.420 until Trump started running in 2015, Donald Trump was one of the most beloved cultural figures in

00:10:03.380 America. Everyone got a kick out of Trump. He had the most popular show on NBC. He had,

00:10:08.020 he was in hundreds of rap songs. The Republicans kind of got a kick out of him. The Democrats got a kick.

00:10:13.160 Everybody liked the guy. He was a popular celebrity, kind of helped that New York,

00:10:16.960 fixed that ice skating rink. And then he runs for office as a Republican. And he actually does

00:10:21.860 things that conservatives want him to do. He's really the first president of my lifetime to make

00:10:27.180 a conscious effort to do what the conservative base wants him to do, not just the chamber of

00:10:31.420 commerce. And what happens? They call him Hitler and they say, we've got to change all the rules

00:10:35.040 and we've got to act in a lawless manner to stop him from running for president again.

00:10:39.320 And according to Joe Biden, by the way, the Americans who voted for him, virtually the entire

00:10:46.620 Republican Party, they're the fringe. They're the radicals. According to Joe Biden, it's the never

00:10:52.280 Trump Republicans, which makes up, I think, about seven people at this point. The never Trump

00:10:56.560 Republicans, they're the mainstream. Biden just tweeted out, quote, in this moment, those who love

00:11:01.260 this country, Democrats, independents, and mainstream Republicans must be stronger,

00:11:05.360 more determined, and more committed to saving America than MAGA Republicans are to destroying

00:11:10.880 America. What percentage of the Republican Party is never Trump? The most generous, wild statistics on

00:11:22.060 this would say about 6% or so. 94% of Republicans support Trump, at least. And really, I bet the number

00:11:29.580 is even higher than that. And yet, according to Biden, that 6% tops, that's the mainstream. The rest of

00:11:38.080 you, virtually half the country, they're the fringe. I'm sorry, we're the fringe. We're the radicals. We're

00:11:44.480 trying to destroy America, half this country, according to Biden. And we've got to essentially be kept out of

00:11:50.580 the electoral system, deplatformed on social media, have our votes suppressed, not be able to express our

00:11:56.220 views, have our candidate locked up for whatever reason, to save democracy. Lock up half the country

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00:13:38.000 Use code Knowles at checkout. According to the White House, I'm not saying the fringe people on MSNBC

00:13:45.400 or CNN or the crazy blue checks. I'm saying according to the White House,

00:13:49.760 ordinary conservatives are fascists, a threat to democracy, trying to destroy democracy. 0.96

00:13:56.860 The actual mainstream of the Republican Party, 95% of the Republican Party, we are fascists, 0.95

00:14:03.360 according to the White House.

00:14:05.220 Only semi-fascism comment. Is it something we're going to hear more of, that phrase? Is it something

00:14:11.680 the president's going to kind of embrace? Or is there any sense that it was, you know, a little

00:14:16.700 impromptu and it's going to turn into a kind of basket of deplorables thing that he regrets and

00:14:21.460 tries to be quiet about? Look, I was very clear when laying out and defining what, you know,

00:14:29.500 MAGA Republicans have done. And you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what 0.73

00:14:36.280 they're doing in attacking our democracy, what they're doing in taking away our freedoms,

00:14:42.180 taking away, wanting to take away our rights, our voting rights. I mean, that is what that is.

00:14:48.440 It is very clear. And that's why he made that powerful speech that you heard from him last night.

00:14:56.580 And he has not shied away from saying that.

00:15:00.420 If you look at the definition of fascism, I would be willing to bet my entire life savings. I would

00:15:06.680 be willing to bet all the rights to my book with words, to my book without words. I would be willing

00:15:12.360 to bet all of every single dollar that I ever will make that Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House press

00:15:18.960 secretary, has never even heard of, much less read, the doctrine of fascism. The essay by Mussolini,

00:15:27.440 Mussolini invents fascism for all intents and purposes. The essay by Mussolini and the Italian

00:15:31.660 philosopher Giovanni Gentile that defines fascism, the doctrine of fascism. I guarantee you she has never

00:15:39.440 even heard of it. I promise you that Corrine Jean-Pierre and all of the libs who fling this word

00:15:45.420 fascism around have never read, I don't know, Filippo Marinetti, who was the founder of futurism,

00:15:51.240 interestingly, and then becomes one of the founders of fascism, writes an early fascist

00:15:57.200 kind of constitution. It was an early kind of constitution of the Italian fasci of combat.

00:16:06.880 I guarantee it was one of the early manifestos. I guarantee you that she's never even heard of

00:16:11.780 the thing or any of those people involved. Because for the libs, fascism just means something I don't

00:16:19.220 like. Now, fascism has a meaning. Fascism was an actual discrete political movement that comes out

00:16:25.920 of Italy. I happen to have read a fair bit about fascism. Just by happenstance, my majors in college

00:16:32.140 were history and Italian. So if you don't read a thing or two about fascism, you've probably missed a

00:16:38.540 fair bit of the last 100 years of Italian history, 130, 140 years of Italian history. But it's a real

00:16:45.580 thing, okay? And it's lost its meaning. It is now, I think Orwell pointed out, too, all it really means

00:16:53.180 is something that I do not prefer. The purpose of using this language, fascism, is not to refer to

00:16:59.780 anything that the Republicans are actually doing. We're not. I mean, it is very, very silly to compare

00:17:05.380 American conservatives in the year of our Lord 2022 to fascists. You have to be totally ignorant 1.00

00:17:12.660 to do that. But the political effect of this, the reason that they're using this kind of rhetoric 0.99

00:17:19.180 is because fascism, one, is elided with Nazism in the modern imagination. Even though those two

00:17:24.920 movements are very different movements, but they blur the two. And it's a way of saying that my

00:17:30.740 opponents are the incarnation of evil. Because in the modern conception, the fascists are the absolute 0.96

00:17:38.020 perfect 100% incarnation of evil. And so they have no rights whatsoever. They need to be exterminated.

00:17:44.780 They need to be kicked out of the body politic, ostracized at best. They need violence to be 1.00

00:17:49.500 inflicted upon them. They are completely delegitimized. That's what that means. And that's 0.76

00:17:55.520 what the White House is saying. That's why they're using that term. They're not using the term

00:17:58.660 because it's precise. They're not using the term because they know what it means. They don't.

00:18:01.920 They're just using the term to say, my political opponents, the Republicans,

00:18:06.080 they're not mainstream, even though they're half the country. And they need to be ostracized, 0.61

00:18:10.720 suppressed, pushed to the fringes, and exterminated. That's what they're saying. 0.99

00:18:14.740 Do you remember there was some kind of white supremacist type a few years ago,

00:18:20.880 Richard Spencer, who was out. He was, I don't know, he was talking on a street corner or something.

00:18:25.460 And a guy walks up and just clocks him, punches him right in the face.

00:18:29.100 And usually, no matter what someone's opinion in America, if they're peacefully expressing their

00:18:34.020 opinion, we're all supposed to say, okay, no political violence. That's really not acceptable.

00:18:39.520 And do you remember when Richard Spencer got punched in the face,

00:18:42.380 all of the mainstream journalists laughed about it. They joked about it. Jake Tapper posted a comic

00:18:46.960 of Captain America. He said, oh, well, that's what happens. We punch fascists in the face.

00:18:50.820 It doesn't matter how odious you find Richard Spencer or his views. What you're seeing is 1.00

00:18:56.000 a mainstreaming of political violence. And by the way, the libs see absolutely no difference

00:19:02.680 between Richard Spencer or whoever, some kind of more fringy political character,

00:19:08.560 and Donald Trump, and the average Trump voter, and ordinary mainstream Republicans. They see no

00:19:13.220 difference. And they are implicitly, sometimes explicitly, calling for political violence on all

00:19:18.060 of them. And it's happening. I'm not being hyperbolic. A lib tried to assassinate Brett

00:19:21.900 Kavanaugh at his home, like a month and a half ago. Okay, you had mainstream Republicans for the

00:19:27.920 past, mainstream Democrats, rather, for the past three or four years, Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton,

00:19:31.480 all the rest, calling for violence, calling for people to push back, quote unquote, on Republicans,

00:19:37.600 mainstream elected and appointed Republicans in public spaces, to not be civil with them,

00:19:43.120 Hillary Clinton's words, to go to their homes. Maxine, that's what Maxine Waters was calling for. 0.93

00:19:48.420 Eric Holder calling for this kind of stuff. All sorts of, this is becoming mainstream. We're still

00:19:54.800 two years out. We're not even two years out yet from the presidential election.

00:19:59.880 Things are going to accelerate very, very quickly. And even with all of that,

00:20:04.720 even with all the constant haranguing and being told we're fascists and all the rest,

00:20:09.320 the GOP is still absolutely crushing it on the generic ballot. So before midterm elections,

00:20:16.220 you have the generic congressional ballot. It's not measuring the actual candidates who are running

00:20:22.060 in the different counties and different districts, rather, but it's just measuring Republican versus

00:20:26.280 Democrat. And it's usually a pretty good indicator of how the parties are going to do in the midterms.

00:20:30.480 A generic Republican candidate is now holding a five-point lead over the generic Democrat,

00:20:36.780 according to Rasmussen. The midterm elections are 74 days away. The most recent report showed that

00:20:44.140 Republicans are leading 47 to 42. Now, this is down a little bit from July. July, the Republicans

00:20:49.240 had a 10-point advantage, which is just insane. That's a ridiculous advantage on the generic ballot.

00:20:54.500 But the five-point lead is great, and the drop has stopped. So it went 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, but it's

00:21:01.540 maintained five now for some time. And also, by the way, when Democrats took the House for the first

00:21:08.500 time in eight years back in 2018, they had a five-point advantage. Okay? And by the way, they had

00:21:14.920 a five-point advantage at this time in that cycle. Their advantage actually narrowed going into November,

00:21:19.900 and they still retook the House. So the Republicans are sitting pretty right now. It's hard to imagine,

00:21:25.500 short of some kind of crazy shenanigans in the election, that Republicans don't retake the House.

00:21:31.180 Will they retake the Senate? It's a tougher map. It's kind of hard to know.

00:21:34.040 But the momentum is clearly on the Republican side. Even with all the threats, all the risk of

00:21:39.560 violence from the libs, even with the FBI kicking down the door and the social media companies clamping

00:21:43.860 down, people realize that our Democrat-led ruling class is really corrupt and not doing very well

00:21:51.200 for the country. We are in, I think, a period of renewal. And you're seeing this not just at the

00:21:57.840 political level, though the political level is a representation of this, but at a cultural level

00:22:03.180 and ultimately at a religious level. You're seeing this, oh my gosh, Eminem. I don't really like Eminem.

00:22:09.800 I don't really listen to rap music generally. Eminem just comes out and posts a Christian rap song

00:22:17.540 over Kanye West. Kanye West has had this very prominent kind of reversion or conversion to

00:22:23.720 Christianity. Well, Eminem, who's a way more lib, kind of angry type rapper, he's just come out and

00:22:30.580 rapped the lines, quote, Today is the day I put all of my trust and faith in you, Father. Please let

00:22:35.360 this hate make me stronger, for they turn on me like a zombie. It's like I'm being strangled

00:22:40.320 unconscious when temptation is almost like Satan is making you trying to take you away from your

00:22:45.800 daughters. He's rapping about rectangular objects in the end, about coffins, about life and death.

00:22:51.660 He's calling on his savior, and he's doing it over Kanye's song. We are living in a period of renewal.

00:22:57.640 I'm going to get to this full song in the member block today. Every day we do something a little

00:23:01.100 different on the member block. Sometimes we interview people, sometimes we go into music,

00:23:04.240 sometimes we go into crazy woke ads that we'll react to. We're going to get into this song in

00:23:08.120 the member block today because I really want to go over it lyric by lyric. But this is a period of

00:23:13.080 renewal, and it doesn't always feel like we're living in a period of great spiritual renewal,

00:23:17.220 but we are. It is happening right now. You are seeing it, whether you think it is

00:23:23.360 sincere or not, whether you think there are some other motivations here or not, is simply happening.

00:23:29.520 This Eminem song over this Kanye West song is a sign of the times.

00:23:37.200 Why is Eminem rapping about Christianity all of a sudden and doing so in a way that seems to

00:23:42.620 contradict some of his previous rap? Why is it? Well, there's two explanations. One,

00:23:48.160 the charitable view is that Eminem is really experiencing tough temptation, and he's realizing

00:23:53.020 the shallowness of a life lived for material pleasure and in this kind of squishy, secular,

00:23:59.700 awful, ultimately satanic kind of mindset. And he's saying, no, I want something better. I choose God.

00:24:06.560 Okay, I reject all that temptation, and I choose God. That's the charitable view.

00:24:10.520 Now, let's say that that's not the case. Let's say Eminem, this is all just kind of a performance.

00:24:14.800 None of this is really sincerely felt. At the very least, what it means is that Eminem is looking at

00:24:21.860 the culture and saying the future of this culture is with God. The future of this culture is with

00:24:27.680 Christianity. All that just atheistic, materialistic crap, that's old, that's passé, that's dated. 0.99

00:24:37.100 And if I want to remain relevant in the culture, I'm going to do that. Look at Kanye, who's essentially 0.96

00:24:42.780 the biggest pop star in the world. It's Kanye West in many, many ways. That guy is kind of the future.

00:24:48.300 You look at politics and celebrity culture. Who's the biggest celebrity in the world? Biggest

00:24:54.160 celebrity in the world is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, again, whatever he sincerely believes,

00:25:00.120 I think he probably has some sincere belief, but whatever he sincerely believes, he talks a lot

00:25:03.580 about God. He talks a lot about Christianity. He talks a lot about rejecting our decadent,

00:25:08.500 depraved, atheistic, crazy culture, and pursuing a more traditional culture, and pursuing Christianity, 1.00

00:25:14.180 ultimately. Frankly, to be comforted by this, to be encouraged by this, none of these people even 0.96

00:25:22.520 need to believe it sincerely. The very fact that they are observing the culture and saying,

00:25:26.700 oh, this is the future. God is the future, which is, God is the past and the present and the future.

00:25:32.700 But the move toward God, the acceptance of God, the kind of spiritual reawakening,

00:25:41.420 the fact that all of these pop culture kings, moguls, celebrities, the fact that they see that

00:25:47.900 is a very, very encouraging sign. There's a related story here that I want to get to.

00:25:55.600 I meant to get to this last week. There's this heretical liberal Jesuit priest by the name of

00:26:00.460 Father James Martin. And James Martin, he's a spiritual type of advisor, I think, and at least

00:26:07.040 a friend to people like Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, the Democrats, those kind of people.

00:26:12.700 And so the other day, a former archbishop named Rembert Weakland died at the age of 95.

00:26:18.560 And Archbishop Weakland was notorious. He was a really notorious figure in the episcopacy.

00:26:26.120 This guy shredded copies of the weekly reports detailing child sexual abuse by priests.

00:26:33.000 Weakland admitted this, by the way, in a 1993 deposition that he destroyed these copies. 0.77

00:26:37.720 He admitted that he was in a homosexual relationship. He was not celebrated. He broke his vows.

00:26:46.100 He pretended that he didn't think sexual abuse of children was criminal. He actually said in his

00:26:52.860 autobiography, he said, quote, we all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had

00:26:57.380 no understanding of its criminal nature. Are you kidding me? You don't need to get a PhD in

00:27:02.340 criminology to know that it's illegal to rape children. Are you kidding me? You never heard 0.98

00:27:07.400 about this anywhere. It's just so brazen, the gaslighting from this guy. It turned out he paid

00:27:13.700 half a million bucks, almost $450,000 in hush money to his former male lover. So he embezzled money from

00:27:20.280 his, from his diocese to pay off his gay lover. I mean, just, you know, probably the sort of fella 0.98

00:27:26.420 who ought to repent and we should pray for him obviously, but he should go off into the sunset

00:27:30.740 pretty quietly. And this priest, this liberal heretical Jesuit priest, James Martin, Father

00:27:35.920 Martin tweets out, Archbishop Rembert Weakland has died. An erudite scholar, gifted pastor and

00:27:40.860 Benedictine Abbott primate. His legacy was marred by revelations that he paid money to a man with whom

00:27:46.280 he had been in a relationship. I considered him a friend and mourned his loss. May he rest in peace.

00:27:51.820 This is the compliment sandwich. This is, he was a really great guy.

00:27:57.200 And yeah, he, maybe he did some bad things, but I'm going to really downplay those bad things.

00:28:00.620 I'm going to really downplay them. And he was a really good guy. That's, that's the compliment

00:28:05.500 sandwich. This reminds me of when that Muslim terrorist was assassinated by the U.S. and then 0.99

00:28:09.800 the Washington Post called him an austere religious scholar. The guy was the head of ISIS. 0.93

00:28:13.640 An austere religious scholar has died. I don't think that's the defining feature

00:28:17.820 of this fella. Why do I bring this up? Not even to talk about Archbishop Weakland,

00:28:22.980 not even really to talk about Father James Martin. It's just to point out,

00:28:28.440 no young person listens to Father James Martin or listens to him in a way that is edifying.

00:28:36.440 Sometimes we will listen to him just to figure out what the kind of

00:28:40.560 unpleasant forces within working within the church are talking about. But we don't listen to him and

00:28:48.240 say, wow, that was so sanctifying. Wow, that was so edifying. That really taught me something about

00:28:51.320 myself. The people who listen to Father James Martin are boomer lib secularists and lukewarm people

00:28:58.460 and squishes and Stephen Colbert and Joe Biden. And this is a really important fact because while the

00:29:06.000 libs and the squishes and the lukewarm people have told us for years that we need to destroy the

00:29:10.000 liturgy and water down Christianity and stop preaching the truth and go lib on everything, 0.84

00:29:14.720 and that's the only way we're going to attract the youths back to church. It's the only way we're

00:29:18.240 going to win the youths over to our cause. It's just manifestly not true. That's not what young

00:29:22.820 people want. Young people do not want squishiness and worldliness and lukewarmness. Young people want the

00:29:28.900 truth. Young people want clarity. Young people want courage. Where these squishes dominate,

00:29:35.460 where these lukewarm people dominate, when it comes to the church, it's in churches where the

00:29:41.020 median age is about 92 and there are three people who show up to mass. When these squishes dominate

00:29:45.660 in the culture, it is all just these kind of aged hippies who never got over the age of Aquarius,

00:29:52.260 just bitterly hanging on. But the young people who actually have vigor and energy and are willing to

00:29:57.160 retake the culture, those people are on the side of orthodoxy. Those people are on the side

00:30:01.060 of truth. Those people, they don't want to find some conciliation on concepts that are totally

00:30:08.180 opposed. They don't want to find a middle ground between right and wrong and true and false and

00:30:12.740 good and evil, okay? The young people who have clarity and courage, the young people who are really

00:30:19.080 fired up, they're the ones who are saying, hey, this transgender stuff is insane. Men are men and women

00:30:25.180 are women. And the squishes and the lukewarm people who say, well, actually, no, look, maybe, 0.67

00:30:30.420 okay, look, here's what we'll do. We're just gonna chop off people's genitals, but only once they've 1.00

00:30:35.660 turned 12. Not when they're 11, okay? We're gonna find a middle. No, you say there's no middle ground. 1.00

00:30:39.900 Boys can't be girls. This is extremely destructive nonsense. Just cut it out. That's what young people 1.00

00:30:45.700 want. That is why Donald Trump is the coolest thing to happen to politics in our lifetimes.

00:30:52.740 That's why he's got disproportionate support among young people. That is why the Democrat,

00:30:57.800 even forget about Trump for a second. That is why the Republican Party is filled with young, 0.93

00:31:01.480 vigorous talent. Ron DeSantis, he's a young man. He's vigorous. He's popular.

00:31:08.220 Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is 50 years old. I'm a little bit biased because I host a podcast with him.

00:31:13.500 That podcast is one of the most popular political podcasts in the world.

00:31:16.900 It has a disproportionately young audience. Why is that? Because the guy's speaking courageously.

00:31:22.740 Because the guy just calls it like he sees it. Who are the other prominent politicians on the

00:31:27.220 Republican side? Josh Hawley, super young. J.D. Vance, super young. Blake Masters, super young.

00:31:31.680 Marco Rubio, super young. I could go on and on. Even Nikki Haley, even Tim Scott, even some of the

00:31:38.600 more moderate Republicans. They're young. They're vigorous. When you think of the Democrats, who do

00:31:41.600 you think of? Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, all these people who are 150 years old,

00:31:47.720 who just never got over the 1960s and the 1970s. They have absolutely no idea what time it is.

00:31:56.700 Speaking of the Utes, horrible story. We've talked about him on this show. This young boy,

00:32:04.020 he's 10 years old, and his pervert mother calls him the youngest transgender model in the world. 0.92

00:32:09.780 And he goes by the name Noella. I don't know what his real name is. So the father of this boy has just 0.82

00:32:17.120 come out and said a really heartbreaking thing. He said, I have no say in this child's life.

00:32:23.440 So Noella, whatever his real name is, has a younger brother named Levi. They were born to D.

00:32:29.000 McCord and Timothy McCord. And then D and Timothy divorced. And D, I guess, became a lesbian or 0.96

00:32:39.860 something. But now D and D's lesbian partner, they identify as not women or as men or I don't know.

00:32:46.860 They're obviously very confused people. And they're forcing their sexual confusion and perversions on 0.64

00:32:51.260 this poor little kid. And now they're convincing the little kid to be a girl and to strut around for 0.99

00:32:55.200 other perverts on the red carpet. And this poor father has no say in his life. He says, 0.85

00:33:02.520 I have no say in it. She's not my kid anymore. And this is really interesting, that even the father

00:33:06.740 here is buying into this transgender thing. But he's saying, I'll use the she and I'm trying, but 1.00

00:33:13.540 I don't, but I just want to have some, maybe not, he shouldn't be modeling or she shouldn't be

00:33:19.660 modeling or whatever. Now, it's very difficult to know what happened in this breakup.

00:33:26.540 The woman is alleging some kind of abuse. But again, this woman is a complete lunatic. 1.00

00:33:31.800 So I don't believe a word that she says. And what the father says is, I was given the opportunity to 0.99

00:33:37.860 step back and let D's partner adopt the kids. And I did that in the hopes that they would not have all 0.99

00:33:41.660 the stress that this is causing in their lives. But obviously, it's causing a whole lot more stress

00:33:46.200 because of these people now raising this poor kid. The issue here is not men's rights or father's

00:33:50.580 rights. The issue is not even transgenderism. That's a kind of symptom of this. The issue is 0.75

00:33:55.080 divorce. The fact that a divorce could happen is the cause of all of these problems. The fact that

00:34:02.300 we have a no-fault divorce culture here and have for 50 years. Although in New York, they didn't have 0.98

00:34:07.460 no-fault divorce on the books until about 10 or 13 years ago. But that's what's causing this.

00:34:13.380 The problems run so much deeper. They've been building for so long. And now we see the extreme

00:34:19.480 expression of it in a 10-year-old strutting down in stiletto heels, you know, twerking around for 0.97

00:34:24.120 perverts. But the earliest manifestation of this began in the 1960s and the 1970s. And some people

00:34:33.260 still haven't woken up out of the age of Aquarius. But the young people, the people who are fired up,

00:34:38.920 they have. And they realize the problems are not just going to be fixed by having some conciliation

00:34:42.380 with transgenderism. We've got to rip this stuff out root and branch. 1.00

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00:36:20.660 Speaking of the kids, horrifying scene from a Charlotte Pride Parade. You know the Pride Parades, 0.99

00:36:27.580 they're family-friendly events. They're really wonderful. They deserve our public funding.

00:36:31.100 They need space in the public square because it's all about love. Love is love and acceptance,

00:36:35.580 and they're really, really great, right? Except we all know that none of that is true,

00:36:39.340 and we have video evidence of it. There's a poor little kid who was brought up onto a stripper pole

00:36:45.260 with some half-naked, I think, woman. And he was riding on her bare midriff and lower parts, 0.99

00:36:53.040 and she was kind of shaking on the pole, showing this poor little kid how to strut for all of the 0.98

00:36:58.780 other perverts in the audience. This wasn't even really the craziest thing at this Pride Parade.

00:37:05.080 There's a video of all of these, I think a number of them are women, just jiggling, 0.99

00:37:12.000 and they're all not half-naked. They're all probably 95% naked. Take a look.

00:37:16.500 We've got to blur out most of this stuff. 0.70

00:37:27.820 This is what we're being told is family-friendly, and it's just a sex show. That's all it really is,

00:37:33.540 and that's all really that it has ever been. I'm reminded of a line from Jason Whitlock.

00:37:39.340 You know Jason Whitlock over at The Blaze? I loved this line. I was on a show with him one time. I

00:37:42.960 wish I had the clip. We were talking about marriage and what to do about marriage. And

00:37:47.720 Jason Whitlock was explaining why redefining marriage is such a dumb idea. And I think this 0.96

00:37:52.680 advice applies to the Pride Parades and all the rest of it. He said, you know, not everything

00:37:59.660 is for everyone. When I was a young man, I was a little more promiscuous, and my friends and I would

00:38:06.680 go to strip clubs. I didn't get married because that wasn't for me. Because if you're the kind of

00:38:14.140 guy who's going to strip clubs, you can't simultaneously be the guy that's getting married.

00:38:18.640 Not everything is for everyone. And that's true. That's such a good point. And a lot of wisdom there

00:38:26.120 from Jason Whitlock. Pride Parades are not for children. Obviously, they're filled with leather

00:38:34.880 daddies and all sorts of sexually deviant people performing sexually deviant acts in public. Those 0.99

00:38:41.660 are obviously not for kids. And if you talk to any of the people who aren't so twisted in their head,

00:38:48.000 who aren't completely lost, and you said, hey, do you think a 10-year-old should be at this thing?

00:38:52.080 They would probably admit, no, it's probably not really appropriate. But we cannot, in public life,

00:39:00.340 we cannot simply tolerate things. This is one of the weaknesses of liberalism, the modern kind and

00:39:08.180 the classical kind. One of the weaknesses of liberalism is that it pretends that the public

00:39:12.600 square is neutral, and we can all just tolerate everything, and it won't affect our public life,

00:39:16.280 and that's not true. People have noticed that we've gone from moral opprobrium for the weird sex stuff

00:39:23.720 to then for about five minutes, we tolerated it, and then instantly it became mandatory celebration.

00:39:28.760 It's not just, hey, tolerate me. Hey, include me now. It's you have to celebrate me. You have to put

00:39:33.500 the pride flag on your shirt. You need to put the special square on social media. You've got to

00:39:39.160 actively celebrate it. And that's because that's how politics works. In order to have a republic,

00:39:48.040 which republic comes from race public, the stuff we've got in common, then we've got to have those

00:39:53.060 things in common, and we've got to have sacred things in common. We've got to exalt certain

00:39:59.940 things. We've got to cast down other things. We have to have taboos, taboos that are very high,

00:40:04.980 taboos that are very low and disgusting. And we have to come to some agreement on that.

00:40:12.500 The pride parades are sick and disturbing, and they should be illegal everywhere. 1.00

00:40:17.300 And because there's no way to have the pride parade on Main Street and say that the kids

00:40:23.340 aren't allowed to come. Because when you do that, then you're admitting that they're obscene and

00:40:26.940 perverted. And when you admit that, then you've undercut your argument for having them on Main

00:40:32.580 Street, right in the public square. So there's not going to be some squishy, weak, lukewarm middle

00:40:39.320 ground here, okay? And when you talk to the young people, I talked to a member of Congress

00:40:43.120 not all that long ago. And I couldn't believe how deluded he was on this question. He said,

00:40:48.960 you know, I've always, he's a very good member of Congress. I really like the guy.

00:40:53.380 But he said, you know, I just assume young people are kind of more libertarian. That's what I assume.

00:40:58.240 I don't think that's true. The young people that I talk to are way more hardcore. They have way more

00:41:03.080 moral clarity and way more courage than the kind of boomer conservatives who are largely just about

00:41:09.140 cut my taxes and leave me alone. Because they see it, because they realize the consequences of it.

00:41:14.340 And we didn't have to deal with the immediate consequences during the age of Aquarius. We

00:41:17.500 certainly do. Now, speaking of public celebrations, Drew Barrymore really stepped in it. Oh, yes,

00:41:22.880 she did. Drew Barrymore, beloved film and TV star, very well. I don't know anyone who doesn't like

00:41:29.280 Drew Barrymore. She just posted a TikTok of herself frolicking in the rain. And a black identity 0.99

00:41:36.220 activist got very, very upset by it. You and I both know that you are capable of enjoying the rain

00:41:49.860 and frolicking freely without filming it and then posting it to TikTok. Now, you've just co-signed,

00:41:58.320 okay, you've just co-signed at least three million 8.5 by 11 front and back people who just go out of

00:42:07.860 their way to disrespect and dismiss the boundaries that black creators have set. And now you're one of 0.99

00:42:16.520 those people. So, I guess my question would be, why? Why is it so important to all of you

00:42:32.220 to treat us like we don't matter?

00:42:37.700 Yeah, Drew. Yeah, Drew Barrymore. Why did you have to be so mean to black people by

00:42:45.180 frolicking in the rain? When I first saw this clip, I thought it had to be satire. 0.98

00:42:53.740 Maybe it is, but I don't think it is. And the woman isn't making any argument. I was trying,

00:43:01.460 I've listened to it multiple times now. I don't hear any argument. I hear words that are being said

00:43:06.440 in succession, but I don't see any of them forming a coherent English sentence.

00:43:11.880 But she's got the tone of an argument. It'd be like saying, pineapple microphone, 0.71

00:43:19.240 pineapple gibbety-goobbledy, gibbledy-goobbledy-gobbledy-glass, glass, wood, up, down, green,

00:43:28.380 purple, hammer. I've got the tone and the inflection of an argument, but I'm just saying gibberish.

00:43:35.020 That's what that woman is doing because it's really representative, actually, of how the left 1.00

00:43:40.340 is conducting politics because they're not making arguments that refer to the real meaning of words,

00:43:47.760 that use words in the correct way. That's what you hear when Karine Jean-Pierre calls everyone

00:43:52.620 fascists but can't point to any definition of fascism. That's what you see with political

00:43:56.620 correctness when the libs just change the meaning of all the words, sometimes multiple times in a

00:44:00.760 single sentence. Because it's not about any logical argument. It's all just about power.

00:44:08.160 That video, what that comes down to is white people, bad. Black people, good. White people do 0.99

00:44:15.780 what black people tell white people to do. That's all that really means. If you can pretend that 1.00

00:44:21.260 frolicking in the rain is a race issue and that you have the right, because of your race, to tell

00:44:26.180 someone else because of her race not to frolic in the rain, then all you're saying is you, as a result

00:44:32.420 of your race, need to be subservient to me as a result of my race. That's all that means. 1.00

00:44:36.400 It's about power. And that's what all of this is about. You're seeing a similar argument from

00:44:40.960 not just some kook on TikTok, but from some kook running for the United States Senate.

00:44:45.300 The Democrat candidate for Senate in Wisconsin, Jesse Mandela Barnes, has just argued that national

00:44:53.840 parks are, you guessed it, racist. Quote, it's important to create more welcoming spaces because

00:45:00.880 things haven't always felt welcome. And that's historical, just that perspective, given the

00:45:05.780 fact that national parks weren't made for the enjoyment of people who weren't white.

00:45:10.120 National parks are built on land that was indigenous. Things were bad. Things were terrible. 1.00

00:45:17.060 The founding of this nation, awful, he says. But you know, we are here now and we should commit

00:45:22.320 ourselves to do everything we can to repair the harm because it still exists and it's colonization

00:45:27.220 and slavery. So the claim he's making is right there in the middle. He says, the founding of this

00:45:34.580 nation, awful. And the proof of this is that racism is everywhere. And you can't see it.

00:45:40.900 It's in the parks. Okay. Where is it? Can you point to that in history? Can you point to that

00:45:45.540 right now in the parks? Do they have a whites only water fountain in the parks? No, but it's race. 1.00

00:45:51.220 It's, it's, it's all bad. America's all bad. And then the language we use for bad is race. It's the 0.97

00:45:56.900 worst. It's, it's the worst thing you can possibly be called in America is racist. So everything has to

00:46:02.820 be tied back to it. Even things that have absolutely nothing to do with race, like national parks and

00:46:07.220 frolicking in the rain. But all that that is about is power and it's power aimed at a very specific

00:46:13.700 target, namely the traditional American political order. The founding of this country, awful.

00:46:20.940 And it's all awful. And the word we're going to give to what's awful about it is racism. Even

00:46:25.520 though things, a lot of these things have absolutely nothing to do with race. And that's

00:46:28.560 our argument for why everything needs to be overturned. All the traditions overturned.

00:46:32.000 It's overturned. And anyone who defends the traditional American order, anyone who waves 1.00

00:46:35.620 an American flag, I guess at this point, mostly just Republicans, they need to be exterminated. 1.00

00:46:42.060 They need to be attacked in their homes. They need to be pushed back on in public. They need to be 1.00

00:46:47.020 kept from, from exercising their free speech rights. They need to be kept from speaking in the public

00:46:51.540 square and voting. They need to be ostracized. And sometimes we need a little violence to be inflicted

00:46:56.040 on them. That is the argument from the libs right now. The rest of the show is going to continue.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 29, 2022

Ep. 1077 - The Black Lines Of Corruption

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