The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1079 - Out With The Old And In With The New Communist Regime

00:00:00.000 Yesterday, Mikhail Gorbachev, the final secretary general of the Soviet Union,

00:00:05.260 the man who, with Ronald Reagan, brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War,

00:00:10.680 died at the age of 91. Some of our younger listeners might not remember Gorbachev,

00:00:16.760 might not even know who he was. Gorbachev was, at the time of his death, quite elderly,

00:00:23.060 a prominent figure in politics since the 1970s, pretty much never had a job outside of government,

00:00:28.880 president presided over the demise of a once powerful nation and empire. His policies

00:00:35.200 hastened his empire's demise, and he was a fellow traveler with actual communists.

00:00:41.100 Gorbachev was, in many ways, a lot like Joe Biden. But that is not really fair to Gorbachev,

00:00:49.180 and I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, either Gorbachev or Biden. Gorbachev was,

00:00:54.500 in many ways, a much better man than Joe Biden. Damning praise, I know. But he was,

00:01:00.820 in many ways, a great man in his own right. Reagan needed him to end the Cold War,

00:01:06.240 which occurred without a shot fired. And he was committed to a new course of reform for his

00:01:11.860 empire. A new course summed up in two policies, glasnost and perestroika. Transparency in government

00:01:20.540 and a fundamental restructuring of the political and economic order. That is probably the biggest

00:01:27.020 difference of all between Biden and Gorbachev. The old top commie was far more willing to root

00:01:33.280 out government corruption and give his people an increased say in politics and the economy than

00:01:39.620 the big guy at 1600 Pennsylvania right now ever would. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles

00:01:45.660 Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from A Hines, who says,

00:01:57.920 when I was younger, much younger, I was a Democrat and protested and rebelled against the government.

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00:03:25.260 ring.com slash Knowles. Gorbachev died. Gorbachev, I think, is the man that we need right now. I would

00:03:34.920 strongly support a Gorbachev in 2024. The policies we need right now, give me the Republican who will

00:03:42.300 run on glasnost and perestroika. Because it is really disturbing, but 30 years after the fall of

00:03:48.060 the Berlin Wall, the United States in many ways resembles our old vanquished foe, the Soviet 0.99

00:03:53.560 Union. You've got this weak economy. You've got political corruption everywhere. You've got the

00:04:00.380 police, the federal police force being used essentially as the private security and bullying

00:04:07.320 team of the ruling party. There's essentially one ruling party in the country. You've got imperial

00:04:14.180 possessions falling apart around the world. We're not in a great situation right now. We're not in a

00:04:20.700 great situation at all. The difference is that Gorbachev was kind of lovable and Joe Biden is not

00:04:26.180 really lovable. If Biden ever was lovable, which I never found him particularly charming, but a lot

00:04:33.240 of people did. That's gone. I mean, good old back slapping Joe. I love you, kid. Come on now,

00:04:38.480 Jack. Hey, come on. That guy's gone. Now he's just an angry, screaming old man who calls everyone a

00:04:43.600 racist and says half the country is fascist. Unlike Gorbachev, who will probably best be remembered 0.97

00:04:49.560 in terms of his actual appearances, video footage of him, will probably best be remembered after the

00:04:56.680 fall of the Soviet Union for starring in a Pizza Hut commercial. It's an amazing commercial.

00:05:10.000 Walking around Moscow and then he sits down in a Pizza Hut. I'll translate. It's Gorbachev.

00:05:17.400 It is Gorbachev. Because of him, we have economic confusion. Because of him, we have opportunity.

00:05:27.380 Because of him, we have political instability. Because of him, we have freedom. Complete chaos,

00:05:34.460 hope, instability. Because of him, we have many things. Like Pizza Hut. And then they all agree,

00:05:44.880 even the big critic. Hail to Gorbachev. Hail to Gorbachev. Hail to Gorbachev.

00:06:01.260 This Pizza Hut commercial, more than any other symbol, sums up the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:06:08.480 More than the fall of the Berlin Wall. The fact that you have the former Soviet leader starring

00:06:16.900 in a commercial for this Western capitalist chain pizza franchise, sums it all up.

00:06:25.280 And what it did sum up for the Russian people, even in all of the corruption and all of the 1.00

00:06:30.920 craziness that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall, was economic opportunity. Okay,

00:06:34.680 we're going to liberalize the markets. We're going to get the economy going again after decades of

00:06:39.640 decline. And so Gorbachev has this complicated legacy. But it does remind us of something that's

00:06:46.000 really important. You need economic growth. You need prosperity. Prosperity will paper over a lot

00:06:54.880 of bad things. And because we don't have that prosperity now, because the economy in the United States

00:07:02.200 is in such a bad shape, because we've got 40-year high inflation, because of all the problems in

00:07:06.820 our economy, all of those long-simmering cultural tensions are bursting out into the open right now.

00:07:14.060 And you've got the leader of our country, unlike the lovable, peaceable Gorbachev, you got the leader

00:07:19.240 of our country, Joe Biden, coming out calling half the country fascist. And then just yesterday coming

00:07:25.120 out and saying that we need to give up our guns, give up our Second Amendment rights. There's no way

00:07:29.920 you'll ever fight the government. You're going to need an F-15 to fight the government, because we

00:07:33.560 are going to, if we wanted to, we could put that boot on your neck so hard, you wouldn't know which 0.94

00:07:38.200 end was up. The rights granted by the Second Amendment are not unlimited. They're not unlimited.

00:07:47.200 Right now, you can't go out and buy an automatic weapon. You can't go out and buy a cannon.

00:07:52.000 And for those brave right-wing Americans who say it's all about keeping America, keeping America's

00:08:00.380 independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something

00:08:05.860 a little more than a gun. No, I'm not joking. Think about this. Think about the rationale we use,

00:08:12.800 that's used to provide this, and who are they shooting at? Shooting at these guys behind me.

00:08:18.640 So first of all, on his claims of fact, they're just not true. You couldn't get a cannon. Yes,

00:08:26.820 you could. You can still, by the way. You can still buy a cannon. If you want to fight the

00:08:31.660 government, if you wanted to fight the American government, you would need an F-15. You couldn't

00:08:37.440 just have a gun. That's interesting. What does Afghanistan have to say about that? Because last time

00:08:43.800 I checked, the goat herders in Afghanistan were able to fend off the Americans in a 20-year war 0.74

00:08:51.540 with little more than black powder rifles. Afghanistan is the size of Texas. 0.94

00:08:59.320 So no, I think you could. In this kind of doomsday scenario where the government turns tyrannical and

00:09:05.160 starts attacking the American people, first of all, you don't think that some members of the US

00:09:10.240 military are going to defect at that point. I don't think, most military service members I know

00:09:14.900 are pretty patriotic people. I don't think they'd fire on their own citizens. Furthermore, you don't

00:09:19.900 think that if a bunch of Afghani goat herders could defeat the United States in a 20-year war, 1.00

00:09:27.520 that the American people ourselves could maybe push back a little against corruption and abuse?

00:09:33.000 I think probably we could. I'm not convinced of that otherwise. But furthermore, Joe Biden saying

00:09:39.820 this sort of thing amounts to a kind of a threat, right? This is on the heels of Biden calling half

00:09:46.280 the country fascist, Biden calling half the country racist and saying that Donald Trump's a white 0.98

00:09:53.920 nationalist and a racist and all these things. This is on the heels of Biden's DOJ classifying parents 0.97

00:10:01.320 who don't want their kids to have their genitals lopped off in school as terrorists. This is on 0.92

00:10:06.180 the heels of Biden sicking the FBI on his predecessor and chief political rival. This is on the heels of

00:10:12.860 terrible economic growth. This is on the heels of weakness abroad. It's like it's 1989 all over again.

00:10:20.200 But somehow the roles are reversed and we're living in the Soviet Union. And unfortunately,

00:10:24.260 we don't have a good leader like Gorbachev running the show. It's like we've got, I don't know,

00:10:28.380 Joe Biden makes Brezhnev look like a youthful and vigorous person, okay? It's like we've got all

00:10:32.840 those old, decrepit, you know, weekend at Bernie's kind of Soviet leaders. That's who Biden's like.

00:10:38.680 I don't want to besmirch Gorbachev's memory by comparing him to him. Even the libs are realizing

00:10:45.140 this is just going too far. There's a CNN panel that just came out and said, hey, Biden,

00:10:50.580 cool it with the fascist stuff.

00:10:52.760 The term semi-fascist is not helpful. It's not befitting the office of president.

00:10:56.960 Well, you can absolutely call out the dangers to our democracy, but it makes obviously perfect

00:11:01.280 sense for someone like Senator Hassan because, look, in New Hampshire, 40, more than 40 percent

00:11:06.240 of registered voters are independents, right? I mean, another, another, another 30 and change

00:11:11.020 are Republicans. Democrats are the third category among registered, registered voters. So she needs

00:11:15.560 to be able to reach out. And that language doesn't help her do that.

00:11:18.180 And Ashley, you're being kind in terms of trying to parse and put what he said into a certain context.

00:11:23.960 The takeaway from Republicans is that the president of the United States who campaigned

00:11:29.240 on, won on, and was sworn in on a message of unity, lowering the temperature and bringing

00:11:35.720 this country together, just called half of the country fascist.

00:11:38.860 And you can parse it how you want, but that's the takeaway. And then Maggie Hassan was right.

00:11:44.260 He painted the Republican Party as a bunch of fascists.

00:11:46.820 This isn't a one-time thing. I mean, Biden has all the precision, you know, of a surgeon

00:11:50.180 with a meat ax here. I mean, when, when, when Republicans wouldn't go along with his

00:11:54.180 bill to federalize all elections, he said, well, you're either Jefferson Davis or Bull

00:11:58.120 Connor. I mean, his natural instinct is to go to an extreme insult sort of, so you're

00:12:03.580 either racist or you're a fascist. 0.92

00:12:05.900 It's almost the whole panel there. It's not even just like the one lone sort of fake conservative. 0.99

00:12:10.020 It's almost the whole panel on CNN saying Biden is too far. He's divisive. He's angry.

00:12:15.420 He's, he's speaking in such a way that doesn't befit the office of the president. This is CNN.

00:12:21.780 Why? Why is CNN saying this? Is it because they all of a sudden they got a conscience? I doubt it.

00:12:25.540 Is it because all of a sudden they're conservative? I doubt that too. I think they're, they're saying we

00:12:30.580 need to correct course here because they realize that the people are turning on them. They're looking

00:12:35.400 at the generic congressional ballot. They're looking at the reaction of the actual American people.

00:12:40.200 And they're saying, yikes, we are losing them, folks. We need a little glass and

00:12:44.120 Austin Perestroika here, I think, because that the current leadership of this country,

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00:13:32.420 You remember how for two and a half years, the big tech companies censored you anytime you

00:13:37.760 questioned any of the lib authorities on COVID. They would censor you. They would de-platform you

00:13:43.800 in some cases, kick you out of the public square. You, the ordinary American, also elected politicians,

00:13:49.920 also even scientists in some cases. And then when the science, when the political realities all ended

00:13:57.020 up justifying and validating all the things that we skeptics had said from the beginning, then big tech

00:14:02.320 denied it. They said, no, nothing to see here. Move along, move along. We can't let them move along.

00:14:06.460 What they did during COVID to censor us is one of the biggest political shifts I've ever seen in my

00:14:12.020 life. We've got the receipts. Don't let them memory hole this thing. We got a video out on my

00:14:18.120 YouTube channel. Make sure you go check it out. It is big tech's endless present. This is a COVID

00:14:25.200 blacklist timeline, point by point by point. I know they're going to try to memory hole and delete all

00:14:31.160 of the old clips and all of that evidence. Don't let them do it. Educate yourself, arm yourself with

00:14:36.600 that knowledge. Don't let them do it again. The libs are going way, way too far. The California State

00:14:45.120 Assembly has just passed a bill that seeks to establish California as a sanctuary for children

00:14:52.220 seeking transgender medical treatment, as well as their pervert parents who want to put the kids 1.00

00:14:58.160 through these kinds of genital mutilations and experimental hormone therapies. The legislation 0.88

00:15:05.420 is called SB 107. The bill's author is Senator Scott Wiener. Because all nature is but art unknown to

00:15:16.100 thee. Because that's just Providence kind of winking, I think. Just the kind of humorous order,

00:15:24.840 even to this very fallen world, winking through Scott Wiener. If you've heard that name before,

00:15:29.780 we've mentioned him on the show. Scott Wiener is that sexual degenerate who made it his mission, 0.97

00:15:35.340 his crusade in the California legislature to soften the punishments for pederasts, for grown men who 1.00

00:15:42.680 have sex with little boys. He said it was very unfair. There were unfair and unequal treatments for 0.78

00:15:49.420 pederasts. And so Scott Wiener decided to take up their cause. And now in the least surprising turn

00:15:56.500 of events in the news that you've ever seen, the man, the degenerate who wanted to soften the 0.96

00:16:01.980 punishments for pederasty now wants a bunch of sexually confused kids to come to his state. 0.99

00:16:07.420 Isn't that shocking? Never, never saw that one coming. Did you? Sick stuff. Only, you know,

00:16:14.280 furthering the nickname for Los Angeles and San Francisco is Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah by the

00:16:19.980 sea. Really awful, awful stuff. Everyone involved in this, the senator, Scott Wiener, the parents,

00:16:28.660 the doctors, these shaman witch doctor quacks who are lopping off the genitals of kids or pumping them 1.00

00:16:35.220 full of hormones and puberty blockers to get them ready to start lopping off their genitals. All these 1.00

00:16:41.520 people should be in prison. All of these people should be ostracized from society. There's no

00:16:45.500 question about that. And I don't, I don't want to hear any state's rights argument for it either.

00:16:49.880 Okay. There's the kind of squish position, which is, well, listen, if California wants to lop off

00:16:55.040 the genitals of kids, that's their business. That's their right. That's, no, they don't have a right to 1.00

00:16:58.740 do that. They don't. Scott Wiener doesn't have a right to do this. These quack doctors don't have a

00:17:03.460 right to do this. The parents don't have a right to do this either. And we are not only justified,

00:17:08.280 we actually have an obligation to say that. No. So you don't get to, you don't get to put little

00:17:15.200 kids through all sorts of mutilations to make the little boy look more like a little girl.

00:17:18.760 No one has the right to do that. There's no right from democracy. There's no right from the sexual 1.00

00:17:22.980 revolution or anything else. When they're not chopping up the little kids, they are, they are 0.59

00:17:27.960 killing the little kids and a lot of other people too. This, not just in California, but up in America's

00:17:33.720 top hat, Canada. In Canada now, they are very heavily pushing assisted suicide.

00:17:40.660 They use another euphemism. It's not just euthanasia, which was the euphemism for many

00:17:47.700 years for assisted suicide. It means a good death, even though it's not a good death at all,

00:17:51.900 because suicide is basically the worst kind of death you can imagine. But now they call it MAID,

00:17:56.840 MAID, medical assistance in dying. And Canada in over the last six or so years has been really

00:18:05.480 aggressive in pushing assisted suicide to the point that we're not just talking about a few

00:18:11.260 marginal cases. Because I know even there are a number of conservatives sometimes who will say,

00:18:15.620 well, look, if an old person has all sorts of terrible diseases and is going through an intense

00:18:21.340 amount of pain, maybe in that rare case, it should be okay for that person to be able to kill himself.

00:18:27.840 I don't think that's true, but I can see why some people might start to believe that.

00:18:33.980 But the thing about assisted suicide is it cannot remain just a kind of fringe,

00:18:40.140 one in a million kind of case. The moment that you legalize assisted suicide,

00:18:46.200 assisted suicide is going to explode and it's going to become a huge percentage.

00:18:51.340 of deaths every single year. This is what you're seeing in Canada.

00:18:55.500 Only recently did Canada really start to legalize assisted suicide and start to peddle this stuff.

00:19:01.920 Now, as of last year, over 3% of deaths in Canada are through suicide. I'm sorry,

00:19:10.500 through assisted suicide. There are other suicides as well. Over 3%. That's a huge number.

00:19:16.480 And it's only going to grow. And now the Canadians are going to push it on little kids. I'm not joking.

00:19:21.840 There's a piece here. It's in the Ottawa Citizen on expanding medical assistance in dying to mature

00:19:30.740 minors. So what they're saying is, no, we're not just going to kill any little kids.

00:19:34.740 We're going to kill minors who can make their own decisions. Now, the thing about minors is they 0.99

00:19:41.920 can't make their own decisions. That's why we have age of consent laws. That's why it is illegal for

00:19:46.280 you right now, listening to this show, to sleep with a 16-year-old. You can't, if you're over,

00:19:51.800 whatever, 19 or 20 or whatever, whatever the laws are in your state. If you're over, if you're not a kid

00:19:57.520 anymore, it is illegal for you to sleep with someone who is a minor. Why is that? Because

00:20:02.860 we have age of consent laws because we say that young people just are not fully in command of 1.00

00:20:07.500 their faculties to make these kinds of important decisions. Now, the libs are trying to turn that 0.58

00:20:11.020 on their head. They're saying, yes, it's true. A 16-year-old can't make a decision about whether

00:20:14.400 or not to have a one-night stand. But a six-year-old can make the decision about whether to permanently

00:20:18.860 destroy his or her genitals and sterilize themselves and give themselves all kinds of 1.00

00:20:24.020 problems and osteoporosis and all kinds of persistent conditions for the rest of their lives 0.73

00:20:29.300 because they do have autonomy. They do have agency. Obviously, they don't.

00:20:35.420 Now, Canada is going to take it even further. They're going to say, hold my beer.

00:20:38.680 Hold my labats. Hold my golden molson. Sorry. I'm just doing my Jordan Peterson impression.

00:20:44.420 Not only are we going to let the children have a one-night stand. Is it becoming Irish? I don't 1.00

00:20:50.600 know. Not only are we going to let the kids chop off their genitals, but we're going to let the 1.00

00:20:56.460 kids kill themselves as well. Sorry. That's what they're saying now. That's insane. To clarify, 1.00

00:21:01.880 Jordan Peterson is not saying that, but all the lunatics up in Canada are saying that. 0.86

00:21:06.260 They are saying that. And this is the logical conclusion, of course. 0.69

00:21:10.020 It was always the logical conclusion of all of this. Which kids do you think are going to be

00:21:16.040 killed through assisted suicide? Do you think it's going to be just the happy, normal, well,

00:21:20.420 no, it's going to be the disabled kids. What this is going to amount to is just another aspect of the

00:21:27.340 system of eugenics that the libs have been pushing through abortion primarily. But now if they 1.00

00:21:33.780 don't get them at the very beginning of their lives, they're going to get them shortly thereafter.

00:21:36.460 And they're going to say, oh, you're disabled, you're sad, you're depressed. Okay, 12-year-old,

00:21:41.820 well, you can make the mature and informed decision to kill yourself, and we're going to support you in 0.97

00:21:45.800 that. Ghastly, ghastly stuff. There was a news story that came out yesterday that the largest child 1.00

00:21:54.340 sacrifice in human history has just been excavated in Peru. It was not the Incas, but it was the

00:22:01.340 civilization before the, I forget what they're called, the Chimayas or something. It was the

00:22:06.960 civilization that the Incas conquered, and they found 450 child sacrifices around the age of 10

00:22:13.740 or 12 in this altar pit. I thought, wow, that's pretty bad. But those guys don't have anything on

00:22:21.280 modern Westerners. Not even close. We sacrifice 850,000 babies a year through abortion. It's not even

00:22:28.480 clear. Even the Aztecs on their worst day didn't get that far. And now look at what we're doing in

00:22:34.420 Canada. Even if you want to say, implausibly, I think, that babies aren't really babies. If a baby's

00:22:39.420 in the womb, the baby's not really a human being or not really alive. That's a silly argument. But 0.96

00:22:43.460 okay, now we're talking about kids who are like 8. We're talking about kids who are 12. And Canada

00:22:48.400 is saying, in a really serious, sophisticated way, that Justin Trudeau, you know, smiley, really nice,

00:22:53.660 happy way. Yes, we're going to let the disabled kids die. We're going to kill them. We're going to have 1.00

00:22:57.360 doctors kill the disabled kids if they get a little sad sometimes. And that'll be better for 1.00

00:23:02.700 everybody, don't you think? No, of course not. Of course not. We all know that this is evil.

00:23:09.680 Okay? The left is for it because the left supports evil things. That's just what the left is. Even the

00:23:17.100 very term left in politics comes out of the French Revolution. And it was the people who sat on the

00:23:22.180 left of the National Assembly who were attacking the church. It's just an attack on God. When it really

00:23:27.080 gets down to it, that's what leftism is. So we all know it's evil. The left is for it because the left

00:23:33.260 supports evil things. And the right is just kind of impotent because the right can't really articulate

00:23:38.900 the definition between good and evil. Some conservatives can, but the ones who have

00:23:43.200 fallen into the squishiness of the you do you and well, who's to say what's good or bad, man? Or

00:23:47.440 don't force me to do anything. Or I'm not going to impose my views on anybody, man, whatever.

00:23:51.860 They adopt all of these kind of silly libertarian-ish platitudes. They can articulate what to do about

00:23:59.700 this. The only language that the right has been able to use in recent decades is the language of

00:24:05.120 autonomy, the language of choice. So they're going to say, well, if they oppose this at all, they're

00:24:10.420 going to say, well, it's wrong because the kids can't choose. The kids can't freely consent.

00:24:15.620 It's fine for adults to kill themselves, but it's wrong for kids because the kids can't freely

00:24:21.120 consent. That's not primarily what's wrong with it. The thing that's primarily wrong with it is that

00:24:26.540 it is always wrong to kill yourself. It's a grave, grave sin because you do not own your body. You

00:24:31.540 didn't bring yourself into this world. You have no right to bring yourself out of this world. Your

00:24:35.380 life is a gift to you from God. You are a steward of yourself and your body, and you have

00:24:40.540 responsibilities. You don't just get to do whatever the hell you want to do all the time.

00:24:46.220 You have duties and responsibilities to the moral order, which is real and which we in our country

00:24:53.320 are denying every bit as much. We talk about evil empires, the Soviet Union. It genuinely was an 1.00

00:25:01.240 evil empire. And we talk about evil empires like the Aztecs and all those people practicing human 1.00

00:25:05.900 sacrifice down there in Latin America. Well, I think the moderns ought to take a little look in the

00:25:11.380 mirror, okay? Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself because the stuff that we're delving

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00:26:00.600 delivered. Speaking of bad things that everyone seems to agree upon, there is a new trailer that's

00:26:07.340 out on Netflix. And this one shook me. I got really shook. The trailer is for a show called

00:26:14.020 Athena. And the show depicts a civil war in which the Arabs and the Africans in France

00:26:20.940 overthrow the French. And this results in a kind of a civil war. Now, the trailer is in French. So I

00:26:28.600 will harness all of my, you know, Pepe Le Pew linguistic skills to translate it for you. Here's

00:26:34.720 the trailer. You see this guy who looks, I don't know, Arab or Algerian or something like

00:26:45.640 that. He's walking through the streets. There's violence all around him. He's walking, he's on a

00:26:56.100 mission. And then there's these words appearing on screen, but it's not fully there yet.

00:27:08.080 I greatly apologize for my poor French pronunciation there. But it's by Sophocles. And so the line

00:27:16.640 means when destiny strikes, when destiny strikes, no one can escape the misfortune. No mortal person

00:27:29.540 can escape the misfortune. And so what is this predicting? This is saying this is destiny. This

00:27:35.940 is fate. You are going to have a race war in France and it's going to cause the collapse of the government 0.97

00:27:41.220 in the society. And you're going to have a civil war, a war between the French on one side and the

00:27:47.080 Africans and the Arabs on the other side. And what's so interesting about this to me is that it's

00:27:52.620 one, it's being put out by Netflix. So this is a lib vision of society. And the libs have talked about

00:27:59.620 these kinds of racial politics and oppression narratives and overcoming and resistance and toppling

00:28:06.500 the powers that be for a very long time. And you've also heard this kind of dread on the right. So

00:28:12.880 that's from the left. On the right, you've heard a kind of dread, which is, gosh, if we keep this

00:28:16.100 stuff up, guys, we're going to have racial conflict and you're going to have this. And if we just flood

00:28:20.540 the country with migrants, but we don't assimilate any of them, then you're going to have a lot of 1.00

00:28:23.920 ethnic and racial conflict. And that could really lead to a lot of social instability. And what's so

00:28:28.400 amazing to me about the trailer is everyone agrees on it. Everyone seems to agree

00:28:35.480 that this kind of conflict is not only possible, but maybe likely. The line from Sophocles here is

00:28:42.540 that it's a destiny. It's inevitable that this is going to happen. The only difference here is that

00:28:47.700 the conservatives are saying this would be a bad thing. We dread this. We don't want to see this

00:28:51.560 kind of conflict. And the libs seem to think it would be a very good thing, something heroic,

00:28:56.180 something worth celebrating. This gets back to something I've cited a number of times on this show

00:29:01.420 recently. It's what Mike Anton calls the celebration parallax. When the libs say something

00:29:08.180 and then the conservatives repeat verbatim what the libs just said, the conservatives will be called

00:29:14.620 crazy conspiracy theorists. The libs are allowed to say it and celebrate it. But the moment the

00:29:19.760 conservatives repeat it in a way to perhaps criticize it or warn about it, they're called crazy.

00:29:25.600 They're just simply not allowed to say the very same thing that the libs are. If a conservative

00:29:31.520 made this show, and there have been some kind of far right, dystopian visions of these kinds of

00:29:38.740 conflicts. It's always written off as, this is fascist, the neo-Nazi, far right wing, horrible,

00:29:46.820 crazy, dystopian. But then the libs come out with the very same images. And they say, wow, 0.95

00:29:51.280 beautiful, yes, slay queen. This is great. This is very scary. It's very scary when pretty much

00:29:57.080 everyone in your society is predicting social collapse and racial conflict as inevitable.

00:30:05.680 Even if one side likes it and one side doesn't like it. That's very, very scary when something

00:30:11.320 seems so imminent that everyone sees it coming. Speaking of race wars, Judicial Watch has just sued

00:30:21.200 a school district over the Minneapolis public school teacher union contract that explicitly

00:30:27.040 discriminates against white people. I covered this probably a month ago on the show. This contract

00:30:32.200 where in Minneapolis, the teachers union signed on to say that if there are ever going to be cuts to

00:30:37.980 the teachers, the white people get cut first. It just establishes a racial hierarchy and it says we're 0.51

00:30:42.820 going to discriminate against whites even more than the schools already are doing. So Judicial Watch,

00:30:47.880 which is a conservative group, announced that they're suing on behalf of the Minneapolis taxpayer

00:30:52.880 over this union agreement. And what does this all mean for us? Normal people of all races,

00:31:03.520 of all backgrounds, and all geographies understand that it is wrong to take a class of people on the

00:31:11.660 basis of their race or ethnicity and say we're going to make you permanent second class citizens and 0.74

00:31:16.320 take away your jobs and we're going to discriminate against you. Everyone knows that. You don't need

00:31:21.440 to be a white person to be shocked and offended by this story. Every normal, decent person of every

00:31:28.060 single race understands that. The libs are just making a gamble here. They're saying if we run 0.67

00:31:35.660 anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-tradition politics, anti-American in many cases, if we run on

00:31:47.380 that, we're going to be able to cobble together a coalition of enough angry radicals to win elections.

00:31:53.660 Might not even be a majority, but it could be a plurality and we're going to win these elections.

00:31:57.780 And what are the conservatives doing? Nothing. They're not addressing this. They have to address this.

00:32:03.000 Judicial watch has the right instinct here. The Republican Party needs to articulate why this

00:32:11.000 is wrong. They need to say there is anti-white discrimination in the Minneapolis public school

00:32:18.720 system and it's wrong. And it's wrong in theory and it's wrong in practice in this particular case.

00:32:27.520 Republicans and conservatives don't want to do that because we feel that it's, we've bought the

00:32:32.260 liberal line. We feel that it's racist somehow to say that you shouldn't discriminate against white

00:32:36.980 people. I don't know how that's possible, but the libs just convinced us of that because the libs say

00:32:40.900 you can't, you can't be racist against white people. So even when the conservatives and the

00:32:45.080 Republicans want to talk about the, the, how awful race discrimination in affirmative action is in

00:32:51.160 schools and hiring, they never talk about the white people because they just feel it's kind of 0.94

00:32:55.740 icky. Let's not talk about, they'll, they'll only talk about Asians. So it happens to be the case. 1.00

00:33:00.800 And this is a kind of unfortunate circumstance for the Asian people, but a happy circumstance for 1.00

00:33:06.260 those who want to fight against race discrimination called affirmative action, which is that you could

00:33:11.160 say, well, it's wrong to the Asian students that they're discriminated against in Harvard admissions.

00:33:15.340 Yeah, it is, but it's, it's, it's wrong for the white students too. Well, it's wrong when, forget 0.51

00:33:21.360 about the white people for a second, it doesn't matter when you discriminate against them, but the 0.95

00:33:24.200 poor Asian students. Yeah, it's wrong for the Asian students. It's wrong to be cruel and discriminatory

00:33:29.180 toward the Asian students. And it's wrong to be cruel and discriminatory toward black students or

00:33:33.400 Hispanic students or whatever. And it is wrong. It is just as wrong to be cruel and discriminatory 0.59

00:33:41.420 toward white people. Are we allowed to say that? I don't know. I know I can, I can hear people going 0.93

00:33:48.200 a little quiet when you, cause you're not, I don't know why you're not allowed to say that.

00:33:51.060 It seems so obvious and everyone gets it. Every normal person, sensible person gets it. The only

00:33:56.760 people that don't seem to get it are the Republican political consultants who want to run, run away from

00:34:00.940 this stuff. Okay. The reason that Republicans are doing well right now in spite of Republican

00:34:06.020 political consultants is that ordinary people across a whole wide range of demographics realize

00:34:12.240 that the Democrats have lost the plot here and they just want to hear people talk to them like

00:34:16.100 a normal person. That's why Donald Trump did so well too. He talked to people like a normal person

00:34:20.300 and he addressed political issues like a normal person and he wasn't totally politically correct

00:34:25.680 and he didn't parse all of his language all the time and he called a spade a spade. That's what we

00:34:29.120 got to do. Speaking of white people, I've got the most white people story in the world right now 0.61

00:34:34.000 and it's a very important day and even I, a swarthy American, really I identify with my white

00:34:41.560 brothers and sisters here, mostly white sisters, mostly teenage white girls. It's pumpkin spice latte

00:34:46.080 day. Yes, I know that many conservatives don't like the pumpkin spice latte. They don't like

00:34:51.860 Starbucks very much. I don't care. I love it. I love it. It is a delicious drink. It is nostalgic.

00:34:58.820 It is wonderful. It's a little too sweet. You got to bring the sugar down a little bit.

00:35:01.780 I look forward to it every single year. It's a sign of the times, the beginning of my favorite

00:35:07.680 season, autumn. It's wonderful. But I've got some bad news for the pumpkin spice latte aficionados

00:35:14.960 out there, all of the 17-year-old white girls who listen to this show. The price of the PSL has 0.76

00:35:20.380 increased dramatically. According to a report from CNN, the PSL will go up from $5.45. That is so

00:35:29.220 outrageous. That's what I'm paying for this thing? That is a crime. Never mind. $5.45 to $5.95.

00:35:38.480 That's a 4% increase. And I can't even blame Starbucks. Inflation is up year over year at

00:35:43.120 8.5%. So Starbucks only raised to 4%, not even 8.5%. I will never forgive Joe Biden for this.

00:35:53.140 It was one thing when he caused the war in Ukraine and flooded the country with illegal aliens and 1.00

00:36:00.260 destroyed the economy. And that was all bad and called us all fascists. I will never forgive him

00:36:06.600 for raising the price of the pumpkin spice latte. But this is a message from our elites, okay? Yes,

00:36:12.800 it's going to hurt the Democrats in the midterms because the economy is not doing well.

00:36:16.360 But this was a plan. You had Barack Obama in 2008 saying, we need fuel prices to go up. That's how

00:36:23.120 we're going to get on the green agenda. You have people who show up to Davos, who are part of the

00:36:27.640 kind of global cosmopolitan set, who say, well, we actually need certain prices to go up. That's

00:36:32.920 what's going to force people into a greener, more interconnected, less national, more globalist

00:36:38.000 kind of world. And they're getting exactly what they want.

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00:36:56.660 The time is upon us for another Backstage. It's happening tonight, 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern.

00:37:02.600 It's about time because there's more news than ever to discuss. If you've never seen Backstage

00:37:07.240 before, it is where we all get together. It's me, Ben, Matt, Drew, the God King, Jeremy Boring,

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00:37:31.020 All of these stories, the collapse of our political order, especially the collapse of

00:37:38.920 our economy, the 4% hike on the price of the pumpkin spice latte, all of that ties back

00:37:43.880 in to France. We were just talking about France and the imagined civil war that's about to break

00:37:50.560 out. Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, just came out, and I think he spoke for the

00:37:57.080 entire Western elite when he said, you know what this is all about, guys? You want too much. You

00:38:03.840 desire too much. You've got it too good, and you've got to say goodbye to abundance.

00:38:09.820 What we are living through is a time of great upheaval. Firstly, because we are witnessing,

00:38:17.780 and not just since this summer, but over the past few years, the end of what we might have seen as

00:38:23.600 abundance. And for those who enjoyed it, it is also the end of a carefree time. Our freedom,

00:38:29.620 the liberty to which we have grown accustomed to in our lives, has a price, and sometimes when we

00:38:33.940 have to defend it, we have to make certain sacrifices as we fight to defend it.

00:38:38.200 It's the end of abundance, and that's what it is. That's what the message is from the elite.

00:38:45.080 And it reminds us, really, it's important to take those lessons from history, especially the fall

00:38:52.720 of the Soviet Union, and for many other empires too. While the economy is humming along,

00:39:01.060 you can paper over a lot of problems. When the economy stops, those problems leap to the fore.

00:39:08.720 This is why Irving Kristol, who's kind of the OG neocon. The OG neocons were actually pretty smart

00:39:15.660 and interesting. The term became really poisoned because the second generation neocons had a bunch

00:39:21.800 of stupid, terrible policies, and they all became never-Trumpers, and they're just like 1.00

00:39:24.980 gadflies in American politics. But the OG neocons, people like Irving Kristol, were really smart 1.00

00:39:30.680 people. And Irving Kristol made the point that conservatism, conservatism today, he was saying

00:39:37.440 this in the 60s and 70s, is religion, nationalism, and economic growth, which is super-based, to use

00:39:47.660 an anachronistic word there. That's not the kind of language we expect to hear from the neocons,

00:39:52.620 because the neo-neocons have really kind of changed and spoiled the whole thing. But religion,

00:39:57.940 totally agree. Nationalism, absolutely. And economic growth, that one's important too.

00:40:03.720 You do need some prosperity in order to keep the society humming along.

00:40:11.420 When you start taking away people's gas and oil, when you start taking away people's food,

00:40:17.920 when you start raising the price of the pumpkin spice latte, people start to become a little bit

00:40:23.860 impatient, and you get a little bit more chaos. Speaking of abundance, Meghan Markle is back in the 0.99

00:40:33.240 news, I'm sorry to say. Meghan Markle, the former Duchess of Sussex, married Prince Harry,

00:40:39.900 this American bioweapon that we probably built in a lab here. I wonder if Dr. Fauci built Meghan 0.98

00:40:45.000 Markle in a lab at the behest of the US government to destroy the British royal family, because that's

00:40:50.020 certainly what she's been doing. We sent her over there. Then they sent her back. They said,

00:40:54.820 no, we don't want her. You can take Harry too. We don't want him either. So Meghan Markle,

00:40:58.840 very, very unlikable public figure. Meghan Markle comes out and has just compared her 0.93

00:41:06.140 marrying into the royal family, her becoming an actual princess to Nelson Mandela being freed from

00:41:16.000 prison. Meghan Markle has a new podcast because every millennial has to have a podcast. It's a federal 0.99

00:41:21.940 law now, I think. Meghan Markle on her podcast claims that when she attended the Lion King in

00:41:28.120 London, a cast member pulled her aside and just said, I need you to know when you married into 1.00

00:41:34.280 this family, we rejoiced in the streets, the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.

00:41:42.980 The grandson of Nelson Mandela, the South African leader, did not like this comment from Meghan Markle,

00:41:49.540 understandably so. What does this tell you? It tells you that the victim narrative, especially in

00:41:55.680 America, but throughout the Western world, but especially in America, is so, so powerful. I bet

00:42:02.640 she believes it. I bet Meghan Markle, one of the most privileged people on earth, actual royalty,

00:42:11.300 believes that she is a victim, like a political dissident being imprisoned for years.

00:42:17.980 That's it. And the narrative is very, very strong. And so we can either complain about it or we can

00:42:28.100 try to make it work in our favor. Okay, Donald Trump actually did this. Donald Trump did not

00:42:33.500 exactly take the high road in 2016. He was attacked for that. He said, Donald, you're just playing the

00:42:39.040 victim. You're just crying and complaining. You need to stop complaining, Donald. And what did Trump say?

00:42:44.340 He said, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to complain, complain, complain, complain, complain,

00:42:50.540 complain, complain. I'm going to whine, whine, whine, whine, whine until I win. And what Trump,

00:42:56.940 I don't know if this was conscious or just subconscious because the guy's got a good gut,

00:43:00.980 he was saying, I'm going to play American politics where it actually is. You're all going to play American

00:43:06.720 politics where the bow tie set in the think tanks over the fancy lunches wishes that it were. But me,

00:43:12.020 that's not what I'm going to do. I'm going to play American politics right where it lives.

00:43:16.360 I'm not going to present my case to the American people in a series of white papers.

00:43:20.380 When people ask Donald Trump, hey, what are you going to do as president? He goes,

00:43:23.160 you know what I want? I want great neighborhoods. I want there to be great neighborhoods. Okay,

00:43:27.640 that's what, that's going to be my job as president. And all the bow tie people and all the think tank

00:43:31.740 people said, oh my gosh, no, that's not what the for all of the federal government actually,

00:43:35.260 what we need to do is take that power out of Washington, DC and then send that back to the

00:43:39.340 states and the local government, ideally the county governments. And then, and you know what

00:43:42.580 the American people here, the sort of average voter here is, uh, what? Shut up, nerd. Shut up, 0.99

00:43:49.280 nerd. I hate my neighborhood. There's guns everywhere. There's drugs on the streets. There's 1.00

00:43:53.840 some bum defecating on my sidewalk. Yeah, I'm going to vote for the guy that gives me a good 1.00

00:43:57.680 neighborhood. Thank you very much. No, but actually you don't understand because of the principle

00:44:02.460 of federalism you have. No, no. And you know, Trump might understand that as well. I mean,

00:44:08.880 I'm, I'm pro federalism. I'm pro restoring a coherent political order, but we've got,

00:44:15.320 we got drugs everywhere. We've got the average life expectancy in the United States declining.

00:44:20.400 We got people chopping off the genitals of little kids. We've got crime going through the roof. So 0.75

00:44:26.040 forgive me if when we're campaigning and talking to real human beings with real problems and real

00:44:32.040 concerns, we take it out of the pie in the sky for a second and say, oh yeah, you see that problem,

00:44:37.200 that problem in your life. If you elect me, I'm going to do my very best to fix it.

00:44:41.200 That's what we got to do. Speaking of victims in their neighborhoods, there's a video just went

00:44:46.140 viral. It was actually captured on a ring doorbell cam of a guy, a 22 year old guy who tries to bust

00:44:55.500 into his ex-girlfriend's house and the ex-girlfriend's living with her family. Obviously they're pretty young

00:45:00.860 people. And she says, go away. You know, no, I'm not letting you in. And he, he won't take no for

00:45:05.860 an answer. And he just starts trying to, trying to bust down the door. Here's what happens.

00:45:14.360 So the door's locked.

00:45:18.660 He starts just trying to shoulder it and try to bust in through it.

00:45:21.660 What's happening?

00:45:25.480 And you hear the guy inside. He goes, I got a gun. Get out of here. It doesn't matter. He keeps trying

00:45:29.080 to bust in the door. And then the guy with the gun really had a gun. Shoots the guy. The guy goes

00:45:35.220 down. The guy is dead.

00:45:39.280 Your first reaction to this video will tell me everything I need to know about your political

00:45:44.460 views. This video, it's a sad video. I mean, you don't, you don't really see the guy die on camera

00:45:49.460 mercifully, but you see him. He gets shot. He kind of stammers off the camera.

00:45:55.140 If your first reaction to this video is, oh, that, that kid, that poor kid. Oh no. Can you,

00:46:00.400 this country, we have too many guns. Like that's so unnecessary that they didn't have to. If that's

00:46:04.780 your first reaction, then you're a lib. Then you're a leftist. Then your view of justice is just kind of

00:46:11.140 messed up. If your first take watching that video is, oh, sad that the house, that the owner of the

00:46:18.500 house had to do that, but he did what he had to do and he protected his daughter. Then your view of

00:46:22.360 justice and politics is going to be conservative and right-wing and correct. And that's it. And it,

00:46:30.080 it, it tells me a lot about American politics too, because it, on the way the camera is set up,

00:46:36.340 right, just by virtue of it being a doorbell, all you see is the guy who gets shot. So, so you say,

00:46:44.180 well, he must be the victim. He's not the victim. He's the perpetrator. What the hell was he going

00:46:48.940 to do to that poor girl? The girl in the house says, dad, I think he's going to kill me. What's 0.99

00:46:52.780 he going to give you? Could you imagine you're, you're, you're in a home. You're saying, I have a

00:46:57.020 gun. Go away. Stop trying to break into my home. And then the guy keeps coming in. I don't think

00:47:02.820 that guy's there to talk. I don't think that guy's there to have tea. I think that guy's there to do

00:47:06.120 bad, bad things. But the perspective here is everything is a lot of people are looking at that and

00:47:11.680 they're going to say, oh, that poor, he's the victim. They shouldn't, the, the dad should have

00:47:16.140 shot him in the leg or whatever, whatever nonsense that people who've never held a firearm in their 0.98

00:47:19.580 lives say, the dad should have fired a warning shot. You know, Joe Biden, he should have fired a 0.98

00:47:24.400 shotgun into the air. Yeah, that's a good idea, Joe. But that's the perspective. You don't, you

00:47:29.540 don't see, the camera's not on the father who's defending his home and his daughter. The camera's

00:47:34.320 not on the daughter. Who the hell knows what that guy has already done, had already done, or would have

00:47:38.560 done to that daughter. And that's it. And that, that perspective is so key. And a really important

00:47:45.600 rule for politics that I would strongly recommend is that we get a lot better about turning the

00:47:51.300 camera. Okay. When we, the libs always talk about how, you know, the poor victims of the war on drugs,

00:47:58.500 you know, the drug dealers, those poor victims. So it's so wrong that we lock up all the drug dealers

00:48:04.040 working for the Mexican cartels. That's so terrible, peddling poison to little kids.

00:48:08.340 What, what victims they are? They're not the victims, they're the perpetrators.

00:48:11.940 The victims are the people who die because some, some pill peddler, you know, gave them,

00:48:19.000 gave them some drugs outside of their school. The victims are the family members of the poor kids 0.98

00:48:23.840 who die. The victims are the American people where the average life expectancy goes down.

00:48:28.500 You got to turn the camera, you got to turn the perspective a little bit.

00:48:31.300 The, the issue with victim culture is not even that there are no such thing as victims.

00:48:40.360 It's that the people who are pretending to be victims are usually the perpetrators in victim

00:48:44.160 culture. And maybe if we paid a little more attention to the actual victims, we'd be a lot

00:48:48.220 better off. It's kind of like cancel culture. The problem with cancel culture is not that we have

00:48:51.220 standards and we say you can and can't say certain things. It's that in, in our current cancel culture,

00:48:56.780 if, if you say the truth, you'll get canceled. And if you say false things, false things,

00:49:01.560 you'll get promoted. That's actually what my, uh, kind of video essay on YouTube is about where we

00:49:06.520 have all the receipts and we talk about the social media blacklist campaign that went on for two and

00:49:11.420 a half years. That's the issue. The issue is not that we cancel people. It's that we cancel good

00:49:15.700 things and promote bad things when really it should be the opposite. Now, you know, the rest of the show

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00:49:35.820 exclusive interview. If you are not a daily wire plus member, be sure to sign up today so that you

00:49:40.100 can have access to the full show, exclusive interviews and the, uh, interview tomorrow with

00:49:45.200 Kirk Cameron. And if you didn't catch it yesterday, we interviewed the podium guy from January 6th.

00:49:49.300 So you can go check that out. A delightful interview. Okay. Let's get to the member block.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 31, 2022

Ep. 1079 - Out With The Old And In With The New Communist Regime

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