The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1085 - Democrats Use 9⧸11 To Compare Trump's MAGA To Terrorists

00:00:00.000 Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks.

00:00:05.400 Growing up in New York, just north of the city, I remember the day vividly.

00:00:10.000 My mother was in the city that morning, as usual, for work,

00:00:13.000 and she saw the first tower fall from a train platform uptown.

00:00:17.500 Everyone knew people who died, or at least knew people whose friends or family members had died.

00:00:23.560 We all knew people who just barely made it out, people who should have been there and weren't

00:00:28.400 there, people who made it out of downtown, even out of the World Trade Center,

00:00:32.580 walking miles and miles to get out of the city, many covered in dust and debris.

00:00:38.160 Some people would talk about it. Most people I know who were there never talk about it.

00:00:44.620 I don't judge either way how people react to this singular event in American history,

00:00:50.780 especially if they had any association with it or were close to it. That's for them to process.

00:00:56.820 There is one reaction to the 9-11 attacks that is unacceptable. That is the absolute lowest of

00:01:05.340 the low, as scummy as it gets. That is to use the anniversary of the attack to score some stupid,

00:01:15.200 cheap political point on your opponents. And so, of course, the libs came out in full force

00:01:22.680 yesterday to do it. Dean Obadiah, Obadallah, he's a talking head on CNN. He tweeted out,

00:01:30.640 quote, terrorists are terrorists, be they Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda or Trump's MAGA. Time to hold Trump

00:01:38.580 accountable. Trump's MAGA, by the way, not just Trump. Trump's MAGA, that is to say Trump supporters,

00:01:47.640 Trump voters, that is to say half the country. Half the country, according to this CNN contributor,

00:01:54.160 pretty mainstream voice, all things considered. Trump supporters, half the country are the same

00:02:00.300 as Al-Qaeda, which is to say that half the country is deserving of death. Now, if it were just some CNN

00:02:07.660 guy mouthing off, that would be one thing, but it wasn't. Hillary Clinton, the former future president 1.00

00:02:13.140 of the United States, former first lady, U.S. senator, secretary of state, said basically the

00:02:19.140 same thing. I feel grateful that we were able to come together as a country at that really terrible

00:02:27.920 time. We put aside differences. I wish we could find ways of doing that again. We rebuilt New York.

00:02:35.740 We have done our best to take care of the families that lost so much on that terrible day. And we have

00:02:44.980 also, I think, been reminded about how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind,

00:02:57.340 especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.

00:03:04.420 So I'm one who thinks that there are lessons still to be learned from what happened to us on 9-11 that

00:03:12.800 we should be very aware of during this time in our country and the world's history.

00:03:19.080 She's a little subtler than the CNN guy, but there's no question that she's talking about us.

00:03:24.420 The libs use the phrase extremism as a sort of synonym for conservatism or Republican politics.

00:03:31.340 She's taken many cheap shots at us conservatives. She's insinuated that we're terrible, awful threats 1.00

00:03:37.440 to the republic and that the left shouldn't be civil with us. Now she is obviously comparing us

00:03:42.440 to the 9-11 terrorists. And it wasn't just her. The sitting vice president, Kamala Harris,

00:03:49.240 was asked to compare al-Qaeda to alleged domestic terror threats posed by Trump supporters. And she did.

00:03:58.100 We're at the 21st marking, if you will, of the September 11th attacks. This was a foreign terrorist 0.99

00:04:05.560 attacking our democracy, attacking this country. We're now as a nation battling a threat from

00:04:11.600 within. Is the threat equal or greater than what we faced after 9-11?

00:04:17.120 That's an interesting question. I have held many elected offices as district attorney, attorney

00:04:25.660 general, senator, now vice president. And there's an oath that we always take, which is to defend

00:04:33.080 and uphold our constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And we don't compare the two

00:04:43.160 in the oath, but we know they both can exist and we must defend against it.

00:04:48.940 So as usual, she says nothing explicitly, but by accepting Chuck Todd's premise that conservatives

00:04:57.080 are akin to al-Qaeda terrorists, she's entertaining the comparison. Chuck Todd saying, you know,

00:05:04.060 now we face a real domestic threat, you know, from those nasty, awful right-wingers. And isn't it,

00:05:09.640 it's kind of the same as al-Qaeda, right? She goes, wow, really interesting question. No,

00:05:13.560 it's not an interesting question. She should have said, Chuck, that's disgusting. I reject

00:05:17.400 the comparison outright. Sure, the Republicans drive me nuts, but they're not the same thing

00:05:21.780 as Osama bin Laden. But she can't do that because the libs view us as the same thing 0.90

00:05:25.360 as bin Laden. Not to be outdone, sitting Democrat Senator Mark Warner came right out and said

00:05:31.380 that conservatives, they're not even a comparable threat. They are a greater threat

00:05:36.060 to America than the sort of people who knocked down the Twin Towers.

00:05:40.360 I remember, as most Americans do, where they were on 9-11. I was in the middle of a political

00:05:46.120 campaign and suddenly the differences with my opponent seemed very small in comparison.

00:05:52.060 And our country came together. And in many ways, we defeated the terrorists because of the resilience

00:05:57.780 of the American public, because of our intelligence community. And we are safer, better prepared.

00:06:03.220 Um, the stunning thing to me is here we are 20 years later and the attack on the symbol of our

00:06:10.020 democracy was not coming from terrorists, but it came from literally insurgents attacking the

00:06:15.200 Capitol on January 6th. So I believe we are stronger. I believe our intelligence community has performed

00:06:21.860 remarkably. I think the threat of terror has diminished. I think we still have new challenges in terms of

00:06:28.100 nation state challenges, Russia and longer term, a technology competition with China. But I do worry

00:06:36.280 about some of the activity in this country where the election deniers, the insurgency that took place

00:06:41.800 on January 6th. That is something I hope we could see that same kind of unity of spirit.

00:06:45.560 They're calling us terrorists. Okay. And it's not just some fringe people. It's contributors on

00:06:53.320 established liberal news networks. That's not just the commentators. It's prominent Democrat

00:06:57.820 politicians. It's sitting Democrat politicians. It's the vice president. It's a U.S. senator.

00:07:03.140 This just a little over a week after the sitting U.S. president called us all fascists who pose an

00:07:09.140 existential threat to the country by our very existence. Okay. By our very presence here.

00:07:16.100 They're accusing us of a capital offense because the libs don't just disagree with us and they don't

00:07:23.680 just want to persuade us. Whether you want to believe it or not. And I think we don't want to

00:07:29.420 believe it. We don't want to accept this reality. But you listen to the words that these people are

00:07:33.520 saying. These people are saying that they want us dead. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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00:09:38.500 So to follow the line of argument, the libs are saying that because conservatives objected to some

00:09:46.480 of the changes to the election system, the major changes to the election system right before the

00:09:51.340 2020 election, we are just like the people who knocked down the Twin Towers and hit the Pentagon.

00:09:56.400 That's what they're saying. The issue that they're, the thing that the conservatives did that they

00:10:02.420 are taking issue with is that we raised any questions about the 2020 election. That makes

00:10:06.940 us election deniers, which makes us insurgents, which makes us terrorists. That's what they're

00:10:12.280 all saying. And then a Democrat congressman, Vicente Gonzalez, at the very same time, in the very

00:10:19.720 same breath, accuses the GOP of stealing elections. And here's, here's his reasoning. Here's his

00:10:27.280 evidence that the GOP stole an election. I reflect the values of our community, but only we can change

00:10:34.020 that. They stole that last election. They spent $3 million to our $250,000 and they campaigned for

00:10:41.000 two years and they still only won by less than 1%. So the way to turn this around is getting out and

00:10:48.980 vote. So folks, thank you for being out here. Let's get everyone excited. Vicente con la gente.

00:10:55.820 Thank you so much. So according to this Democrat congressman, the GOP stole an election. This would

00:11:02.720 be the election of Mayra Flores, who beat Representative Dan Sanchez in a special election. 0.86

00:11:09.120 The reason that the Republicans stole it is because they won. That's why. When the Republicans win,

00:11:17.720 that is evidence that they stole it because the Republicans are never supposed to win because we

00:11:21.840 have a thriving democracy. And so if one of the two parties ever wins, then that's an attack on

00:11:26.780 our democracy. Because by our democracy, they mean a one party totalitarian system that marches

00:11:32.180 inevitably toward progressive liberalism. That's the argument. Now you might say, Michael,

00:11:39.500 they're contradicting themselves. They call us terrorists when we raise legitimate questions

00:11:43.980 about elections. And then they raise illegitimate questions about elections and accuse us of

00:11:48.800 stealing things with no evidence whatsoever. Right. It's not about principle. There is no

00:11:53.120 principle here. Okay. It's just about power. And the lesson, the takeaway for conservatives here

00:11:59.360 is to stop entertaining it, to stop trying to meet in the middle and find some conciliatory

00:12:07.000 middle ground and say, actually, you know, the Democrats have a point. Donald Trump really

00:12:10.840 shouldn't talk a certain way. And actually, Democrats, you have to give it to them. You

00:12:14.020 don't. You don't have to hand it to them. They don't have a point. They expressly don't have

00:12:18.500 a point. They're not really making arguments. They're just wielding power against you who they

00:12:23.900 consider to be a terrorist. You, who they think are committing a capital offense and by your presence

00:12:29.240 pose an existential threat to the country. You, who they want to kill. They aren't telling you that

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00:13:42.240 Podium, let's grow. The libs are so brazen these days, they feel that they don't really need 0.72

00:13:49.460 arguments. The mayor of New Orleans really exemplified this. In a way, I do have to hand

00:13:57.680 it to this lady, not for any of the political arguments she's making, but just for her boldness 0.99

00:14:02.400 and temerity in making them. The mayor of New Orleans just got caught in a political scandal

00:14:06.340 because she's buying herself very expensive travel, okay? She's buying herself first-class travel.

00:14:12.560 New Orleans is not the wealthiest city in the world. This woman's supposed to be a public servant. 1.00

00:14:16.560 She doesn't need to be flying first-class. And so she's asked if she's gonna reimburse the

00:14:20.820 difference for the first-class tickets. And this woman comes out there, she says,

00:14:25.400 how dare you even raise that question? All expenses incurred doing business on behalf

00:14:33.020 of the city of New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the city of New Orleans. One thing is clear,

00:14:38.940 I do my job, and I will continue to do it with distinction, with dignity, and integrity every step

00:14:45.180 of the way. And so that's what I have to say on that.

00:14:49.440 You're saying that I'm a little bit corrupt, but what I'm saying is I do a great job. So that's that.

00:14:56.140 So that's it. And she went on, this is my favorite part of the quote. I can't find a video clip of it

00:15:00.120 anywhere, but it is being reported in multiple outlets. Quote, as the mother of a young child whom

00:15:06.980 I live for, I am going to protect myself by any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there

00:15:13.280 to see her grow into the strong woman I am raising her to be. Here's the punchline.

00:15:18.900 Anyone who wants to question how I protect myself just doesn't understand the world black women walk 0.80

00:15:25.420 in. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So you're telling me that you're buying yourself fancy

00:15:32.560 first class tickets at the taxpayer expense, taxpayers of the poor city that you're the mayor

00:15:38.280 of. And then when you get called out for it, you're saying it's because you're a black woman

00:15:43.140 and black women can't fly in coach. Black, black, white men can fly in coach, but black women, 1.00

00:15:50.960 you see. It's too dangerous to fly back there with those filthy hoi polloi. Oh, could you imagine? 1.00

00:15:57.400 Oh, could you imagine if it were a black woman in a middle seat? Oh, the risk would simply be too 1.00

00:16:03.540 high. So you understand this lady has to fly first class. She has to get some free glasses of champagne 1.00

00:16:09.560 for her safety. It's always a threat. It's always a threat to their lives. Anytime that there's someone

00:16:16.940 that they don't like exercising any kind of power, anytime they don't get their way on the left,

00:16:22.720 they say, oh, it's a threat. It's a threat. I feel unsafe. When a conservative comes to a college

00:16:28.680 campus to give a lecture, they say, no, I feel unsafe. We got to cancel the conservative.

00:16:34.820 When regular old Americans vote for Donald Trump, they say, no, I feel unsafe. They're

00:16:39.600 insurrectionists. They're terrorists. We got to. And now this woman's saying, no, sorry. When you

00:16:43.900 question my luxurious expenditures at the taxpayer dime, no, I feel unsafe. Sorry.

00:16:51.140 I'm a black woman. Here's my Trump card. I'm a black woman. Shut up now. 1.00

00:16:58.680 Look, it's working for her. She gets to fly first class. She doesn't really get questioned.

00:17:03.900 This is how identity politics works in America. You claim to be a member of an aggrieved minority.

00:17:09.920 You can do whatever you want. You don't have to answer for a damn thing. You don't have to make

00:17:15.100 any arguments. This is why there is such a currency to victimhood, especially to racial victimhood, 0.90

00:17:21.520 that everyone's trying to claim it. And when they can't claim it, because

00:17:24.720 there is no anti-black oppression. There's no systemic racism. There's no

00:17:30.680 anti-woman misogyny, patriarchy. It's all, you know, that is a fantasy of the libs. Because of that,

00:17:36.640 they have to invent it. This is what you're seeing right now at BYU, Brigham Young University.

00:17:40.340 You may have heard of this story. I didn't even report on it because I knew it was bogus from the

00:17:44.040 beginning. But the headlines for weeks now have been that there was a racist incident during a

00:17:52.780 Brigham Young volleyball game. It was Duke versus Brigham Young. And the Duke volleyball player,

00:18:00.360 Rachel Richardson, claimed that BYU fans yelled racial slurs at her during the game.

00:18:07.500 BYU, that's the Mormon University. Mormons, probably the nicest and most polite people

00:18:13.160 who have ever walked the face of the earth. They're apparently screaming, yelling racial slurs.

00:18:17.920 So the minute I saw that, I said, nope, that didn't happen. There's just no way. I would bet,

00:18:23.220 I would bet, probably my life savings, that that didn't happen at all. Nothing even resembling that

00:18:30.320 happened. Then the day after the game, this Duke player's godmother, Lisa Pamplin, who's a lib

00:18:37.720 politician who is running for number five judge of Tarrant County Criminal Court, tweeted out,

00:18:42.920 quote, my goddaughter is the only black starter for Duke's volleyball team. While playing yesterday, 1.00

00:18:47.320 she was called the N-word. You're not even allowed to say the word. That's how systemically racist 1.00

00:18:53.540 America is against black people. There's only one word in the entire English language you are not

00:18:58.060 allowed to say right now, and it's the word that would be offensive to black people.

00:19:01.820 And she was called that word for every time she served. Then in comes LeBron James, of course.

00:19:08.420 LeBron James, one of the wealthiest, most privileged people in America, who says black man can't walk

00:19:13.060 outside their door without being hunted down by racist police. So LeBron James, of course,

00:19:18.480 not a whole lot going on in between those years. He decides to chime in. He believes the thing,

00:19:22.800 hook, line, and sinker. He says, Lisa Pamplin, you tell your goddaughter to stand tall,

00:19:26.580 be proud, and continue to be black. We're a brotherhood and sisterhood. We have her back.

00:19:30.520 This is not sports. And then Richardson herself chimed in. Said, Friday night in our match against

00:19:36.180 Brigham Young, my fellow African-American teammates and I were targeted and racially heckled

00:19:41.100 throughout the entirety of the match. The slurs and comments grew into threats,

00:19:45.360 okay, which caused us to feel unsafe. So hold on. Initially, it was we were called names.

00:19:51.100 Then it was we were called the N-word. Then it was we were directly threatened. Not just me,

00:19:57.940 by the way, my whole, all the black players, even though apparently I thought she was the only black

00:20:01.980 player, whatever. As a result of this, South Carolina women's basketball team decided to cancel 0.98

00:20:09.660 its home and home series with Brigham Young. There was a national outcry, you know, because of how

00:20:14.460 systemically racist America is. Everyone's just starts to cancel BYU because to even have this

00:20:22.080 slight insinuation that you might be in any way racist against black people will destroy your entire

00:20:27.220 life. And then BYU does an investigation and finds zero evidence that anything like this took place.

00:20:37.160 It never happened. All of the cultural forces in America are pressuring BYU to find any evidence of

00:20:47.300 this. And BYU couldn't because it obviously didn't happen. Of course. Of course. Because none of these

00:20:56.580 things are real. They're always hoaxes. Your reaction to headlines about this is the most interesting

00:21:05.220 thing about the stories. I don't mean you. If you're listening to the show, you're very sensible

00:21:08.560 people. But I mean Americans generally. I had a friend. This is right after Trump wins. A friend

00:21:13.500 of mine in LA, very, very liberal. He says, Michael, the racism, the Ku Klux Klan has been unleashed in

00:21:19.820 America. I said, yeah, I don't think so. I actually know a lot of black people who voted for Trump. I

00:21:23.540 don't really buy that. He says, no, Michael, I don't. Michael, I was driving down in West Hollywood

00:21:29.420 and I saw a sign and it said black people not wanted here. I forget the exact wording,

00:21:35.640 but it was something to the effect of go away, black people. We don't like you. 0.99

00:21:38.800 Can you imagine, Michael, in West Hollywood, the forces of racism have been unleashed? I said, hey,

00:21:43.540 buddy, buddy, repeat what you just said. In West Hollywood, which is the most liberal part of one of

00:21:55.120 the most liberal cities, one of the most liberal states, you're seeing this sign. So either there

00:22:00.000 is explicit, either the Ku Klux Klan is all libs or it's a hoax. It's not real. It was put up 0.53

00:22:08.740 by either a black person who is trying to get some kind of victim status or in West Hollywood,

00:22:16.640 more likely, probably just a liberal white person who is trying to pretend that there is this awful

00:22:24.340 culture of racism. To engage in a lie, but the lie tells a greater truth. That's what the libs

00:22:31.020 always say when they get caught in a lie. And that isolated incident, I don't know, there was not

00:22:36.160 even any reporting about this sign that my buddy saw. I promise you that was a hoax. And the way

00:22:41.080 that I know that that was a hoax is that they always are hoaxes, okay? These kinds of incidents

00:22:47.860 have been going on, especially on campuses like BYU, but on campuses around the country.

00:22:54.540 These things have been going on for 50 years now or more. And they have been increasing in frequency

00:22:59.620 constantly over the last five or six years, really beginning with the Trump administration.

00:23:05.660 Because the libs had this narrative to sell that Trump is a big racist and the conservatives are the

00:23:09.960 Ku Klux Klan. And so because there was no evidence of that, they had to fabricate it.

00:23:15.320 The demand for anti-black racism is very, very high. The supply is very, very small.

00:23:20.080 And so they have to manufacture the supply. That's exactly what they did.

00:23:26.500 BYU, it turns out the racial hate incident was a total hoax. 1969, Cornell University,

00:23:34.920 Willard Strait Hall. You have black power activists who are demanding the creation of an African-American

00:23:40.000 studies center, an African-American studies department. African-American studies is a fake 0.63

00:23:45.220 academic discipline. But in the 60s, these kinds of critical theory disciplines were cropping up

00:23:48.900 everywhere. And so these activists at Cornell wanted one, and they weren't going to get one

00:23:53.360 because it's a fake academic discipline. So then what do you know? A burning cross shows up in front

00:23:57.580 of one of the black groups on campus. And as a result of this, there's a major incident.

00:24:04.140 You have black power activists with guns holding people hostage on campus. And as a result, the 0.99

00:24:09.180 university caves and creates the AFAM studies department. Now, the most curious thing about

00:24:13.320 this whole incident is they never found out who put up that burning cross. They never found any of

00:24:19.680 those Ku Klux Klansmen on campus. In fact, they found a lot of evidence that the black power activists 0.99

00:24:27.320 burned the cross themselves. Of course, why wouldn't they?

00:24:30.100 By feigning victimhood, they got everything that they wanted.

00:24:35.920 Obviously, Jussie Smollett, that's the greatest example. You got this basically unknown actor from

00:24:40.980 a show that pretty much nobody watched, walking around downtown Chicago, a city that had been

00:24:47.580 governed by libs for almost 100 years at that point, exclusively by libs, by one of the most notorious

00:24:52.820 Democrat machines. And then it just so happens that there were two Klansmen MAGA hat wearing men

00:25:01.840 out on the street looking for this obscure actor and carrying rope to lynch him, wearing the MAGA

00:25:10.420 hats. And then Jussie Smollett fought them off while holding a subway sandwich. It never made any sense.

00:25:15.040 Half of the country believed it. More than half the country believed Smollett.

00:25:17.740 Even in the most ridiculous version of this, that's the power of the narrative.

00:25:25.160 2016, three black students at Oberlin College accused a bakery and liquor store owner of racially

00:25:35.040 profiling them, discriminating against them. Major, major incident. Oberlin cuts the contract,

00:25:40.040 totally defames this poor little bakery. And it turns out, no, the kids were lying. They were trying

00:25:44.800 to rob the store. They were trying to steal booze. They completely made it up. And everyone bought

00:25:49.540 into it, hook, line, and sinker, except for those of us who know that every single one of these

00:25:54.360 incidents is a hoax. And fortunately, now in court, the court, when presented with all this evidence,

00:26:00.200 actually found in favor of the bakery. But too little, too late. The baker actually ended up dying,

00:26:05.440 and Oberlin still hasn't totally paid them out.

00:26:08.320 What about 2016? That same year, Bowling Green State University.

00:26:11.180 There was allegedly an incident of rock-hurling white Trump supporters,

00:26:16.000 throwing these rocks at a black student. The only evidence of racism or violence that

00:26:20.880 investigators could find was a trove of text messages from the black student who had

00:26:26.220 concocted this story. The student had sent her boyfriend texts disparaging white people and wishing

00:26:32.900 death upon Trump supporters and saying that she wished we would all get AIDS. Okay.

00:26:37.120 That 2017, St. Olaf College in Minnesota, a black student left a racist threat on her own car.

00:26:45.400 There was an, oh, here's a threat. The Klan's going through Minnesota. No, she wrote it herself.

00:26:49.700 2017, five black Air Force Academy cadets found racial slurs on their doors. Oh, no,

00:26:55.880 the Klan is active at the Air Force, right? No, turns out, investigation proved,

00:26:59.860 they wrote the threats themselves and the slurs themselves.

00:27:02.220 2018, a black student at Goucher College found in a dorm room bathroom, I'm going to kill all

00:27:10.260 N-words. Big uproar. Here we go. The Klan is back. And reasonable people knew this was obviously fake.

00:27:15.420 And it turns out, yes, the kid wrote the slur himself. And the irony of it is, I guess the kid

00:27:19.280 is technically black. If you look at a picture of him, he doesn't look black at all. You wouldn't 0.92

00:27:22.760 even know that he was black. So even the idea that he would have been targeted is completely

00:27:27.800 preposterous. He doesn't, not that he wouldn't have been targeted anyway, because this stuff

00:27:32.200 doesn't exist. Because it's all made up. Because it's all, it has to be fabricated for the demand.

00:27:38.180 So why? How does this happen? It happens because of the power of the narrative in face of all the

00:27:47.180 evidence. And it's not just that the libs buy into this stuff. The conservatives buy into it too.

00:27:52.000 Down in South Carolina, there is a pro-life bill that the South Carolina Republicans were trying to pass.

00:27:56.840 And it just got shot down. And it got shot down largely because of defections by squish 1.00

00:28:01.520 Republicans in South Carolina. Five Republicans, Senate Republicans, led by GOP Senator Tom Davis,

00:28:09.880 filibustered the abortion ban that was supposed to pass on Thursday. He was joined by three women.

00:28:17.320 One other guy, three women. And here's what one of the women said. This was Senator Sen in South

00:28:25.120 Carolina. She said, we ladies are about to suffer a setback at the hands of a lot of white males in 0.95

00:28:29.480 here. But we're going to live to fight another day. The white males have lost too. We've been here for

00:28:34.360 two days and two nights. And we're basically back to the same bill we passed a year ago. And the Supreme

00:28:38.620 Court has taken off the table temporarily. Here's to hope in ladies. Even the Republicans buy into this 1.00

00:28:45.260 kind of language. The white males are the worst. But the white males, they're the worst people in the

00:28:50.400 world. One time I was in Washington, D.C. And there was a group of black nationalists called

00:28:56.120 the Black Hebrew Israelites. They're the same guys that were screaming slurs at the Covington kid

00:29:00.900 with the MAGA hat outside of the Lincoln Memorial, the one where the crazy Indian man started banging a 1.00

00:29:07.420 drum in his face. And somehow the whole country turned on the kid, turned on the kid because he's

00:29:11.520 a white male. And so I was in front of this group in D.C. And there was a kind of frivolous young

00:29:15.900 white girl there. And the guy was yelling all sorts of awful things about her and white people

00:29:24.080 in general. And her reaction was priceless. It told me everything I needed to know about the state of

00:29:29.460 racial political narratives. She said, hey, stop it. Why are you yelling at me? I am a woman. I've been

00:29:37.680 oppressed by the white men too. Yeah, you look real oppressed, lady. You look in your north face with

00:29:45.260 your pumpkin spice latte. Oh, I almost forgot my sign. I got my nice little sign here. If loving

00:29:50.300 pumpkin spice is wrong, I don't want to be right. So she's there. I think we actually may have been

00:29:54.780 outside of a coffee shop or maybe a Starbucks. I don't remember the specific details. But we're

00:29:59.760 there. And this woman yells at me. I said, lady, you're not. No, the answer to this ridiculous

00:30:06.700 narrative from this group that is claiming all sorts of nonsense is not to try to join their side

00:30:13.720 and say, no, no, no, I'm also oppressed. Yeah, all those white men are terrible. Don't go after

00:30:18.820 me. Go after them. The answer is to knock down the whole narrative. I think the only way we're

00:30:25.020 going to get around this, we need a major nationwide political campaign that says white 0.96

00:30:29.760 guys are people too. It says white guys aren't the worst people in the world. White guys aren't

00:30:37.280 universally evil. Okay, that I don't know. If you were to have such a campaign, it would probably

00:30:42.420 be called racist and sexist. You can't do it. The libs have concocted this narrative that white

00:30:51.960 people are the worst. So anything white people do is bad. We talked about this last week with when 0.73

00:30:57.900 white people move neighborhoods. If white people move into a minority neighborhood, that's bad because 0.80

00:31:03.680 that's gentrification. They're bad for doing that. But if white people move out of a minority 0.77

00:31:07.760 neighborhood, that's bad. That's white flight and they're bad for doing it. So there's just nothing 1.00

00:31:12.040 they can do that's right. And so maybe what that tells you is just that the narrative is unjust.

00:31:18.060 Okay. It is the libs creating an enemy, creating a scapegoat of people unjustly and then leaving no

00:31:28.940 limit to what can be done to these people. Discriminate against them according to the law. I mean,

00:31:33.040 think about what the libs are doing to the Republicans now, comparing us to al-Qaeda terrorists.

00:31:38.280 Okay, there's no limit to that. They're accusing us of a capital offense.

00:31:42.900 Speaking of education, Karine Jean-Pierre is now on behalf of the Biden administration

00:31:52.420 retconning COVID because what happened during COVID was so obviously painful and pointless.

00:31:58.940 All the masks and the lockdowns and you can't go to school and you can't go to church.

00:32:03.820 It was so, so awful. And now the numbers are in. Kids are much dumber than they were before

00:32:07.800 the COVID lockdowns. And so now what the Dems are doing is they're saying, hey, actually,

00:32:14.540 remember when the Republicans wanted to keep the schools open and the Democrats

00:32:17.320 single-handedly shut them down? And they did that because they're in the pocket of the teachers

00:32:23.000 union. And for years, they insisted on the schools remaining shut down despite Republicans. Actually,

00:32:28.940 it was the opposite. The National Assessment of Educational Progress has this new testing that

00:32:36.640 shows that nine-year-olds lost ground in both math and reading in pretty dramatic ways as a result of

00:32:42.620 the pandemic. What is the president going to do about it? What is the administration going to do

00:32:48.420 about this severe learning loss? And does the administration shoulder any blame for not pushing

00:32:55.140 schools to reopen sooner? So let's step back to where we were not too long ago when this president

00:33:02.340 walked into this administration, how mismanaged the pandemic, the response of the pandemic was,

00:33:08.700 how 47% of schools were in less than six months, our schools went from 46% to open to nearly all of

00:33:21.620 them being open to full-time. That was the work of this president. And that was the work of Democrats 0.80

00:33:26.680 in spite of Republicans not voting for the American Rescue Plan. That was the work of Democrats despite 0.66

00:33:33.360 the Republicans. Yeah, no, no, no. I know you think you thought, I know you thought that the

00:33:38.180 Republicans spent the whole time saying, reopen the schools, reopen the schools. And the Democrats

00:33:41.660 saying, no, we can't because the teachers don't want to go back to work. But no, no, it was the

00:33:46.640 opposite. And a lot of people are going to believe it. This is the real advantage of controlling the

00:33:52.940 media and the tech platforms, is they can retcon this stuff almost without any evidence left over.

00:34:00.940 When I've gone back, you know, I've mentioned this on the show before. When I've gone back to find the

00:34:04.780 clips of Dr. Fauci saying, if you take the vaccine, you won't catch COVID. Or Biden or Walensky saying

00:34:11.620 the same thing. When I've gone back, because they then obviously contradicted themselves,

00:34:15.760 very often those clips are just gone. You can't find them. I have to go back to my own show and

00:34:21.060 find the clips on my, because at least I own that material. Find those clips, because otherwise

00:34:24.900 they've been scrubbed largely from the internet. That's what they're going to do on COVID.

00:34:29.960 They're going to say all the bad stuff was Republicans, all the good stuff was Democrats,

00:34:32.520 even though it was completely the opposite. We cannot let them do that.

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00:35:14.080 If you've been thinking to yourself, you know, it's been a while since we heard from Candace Owens,

00:35:18.620 have I got news for you? Candace is back from maternity leave in a brand new eponymous 1.00

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00:36:08.940 I know that Republicans complain that the schools were shut down during COVID, and it is bad

00:36:13.680 in terms of children's overall progression, and it was completely needless from the standpoint of

00:36:21.340 medicine and public health. But there are some benefits. Namely, your children were not exposed

00:36:27.660 for some period of time to people like this. I love a bold eye, and I love bold hair, and I love

00:36:33.860 bold glasses, and I love just living loud and proud and out. And like, to me, this is my art. This is like

00:36:41.140 my queer art that I just exist colorfully every day. And I love a bold eye, but here's one place you

00:36:50.340 should not wear a bold eye. You should not wear a bold eye when you're going to hear Mike Curato

00:36:55.560 give a talk about this book, because if you do, then there's a strong chance that you might cry and

00:37:02.920 have like a Tammy Faye Baker moment. Yeah, she goes on and on about this weird, like, kind of porny book

00:37:10.220 that she's promoting. She has a school library. I don't know what bold eye means. Does that mean

00:37:15.960 weird rainbow glasses, like the rainbow hair, like the rainbow everything? That's a school librarian

00:37:22.760 who is peddling pornography to your children. And the argument that she makes, not even so much in 0.96

00:37:28.760 that video, but in some of the writing that she's published, is really profound. She says that

00:37:33.980 queer aesthetic is a form of resistance. So you hear she's talking about her glasses and her hair 1.00

00:37:41.920 and her look and her this and this picture book and the images. Not so much the arguments, not even

00:37:46.640 the rights, just the aesthetic is a form of resistance. And she's totally right. And conservatives

00:37:54.160 answer to this shouldn't just be like, oh, whatever, who cares? Yeah, you want to wear your crazy hair? You

00:37:59.260 look like a crazy person. That's not a big deal. It's really just the rights and the arguments and

00:38:02.860 the law. No, no, no. The conservative response to that should be, oh, yeah, you're right. We should

00:38:07.620 ban that stuff. At least, I'm not saying we pass a federal law against stupid colored hair. I'm saying 1.00

00:38:13.520 that we need to have standards and norms. And in places like schools, we need dress codes.

00:38:20.080 We always had dress codes in places for all of American public life. And then I don't know,

00:38:25.220 over the last five minutes, we've decided that we have a First Amendment right to wear whatever we

00:38:30.060 want in any place we want. That's not true. When you go into certain restaurants, you need to wear a

00:38:33.720 jacket. When you go to school, especially for most of American history, you needed to wear something

00:38:38.780 akin to a uniform. And you couldn't wear dresses that were too short, and you couldn't wear, you

00:38:44.280 couldn't have your hair in some crazy way, and you couldn't have piercings and tattoos everywhere.

00:38:48.660 There are rules to how to dress, and those can be enforced by institutions. And we should

00:38:54.640 discourage the weird, crazy, queer stuff. She's totally right. Queer aesthetics is a form of 1.00

00:39:04.500 resistance, and we should oppose that. It is. Conservatives are really good at talking about

00:39:11.840 the truth. We're really good at saying, no, that's not true. That's false. Boom, debunked,

00:39:16.540 owned, facts and logic. We're really good at that. We're okay at talking about the good.

00:39:22.360 Not all conservatives are. Not all right-wingers. Some people don't want to talk about the good.

00:39:26.820 They say, well, you do you. I'll do me. We'll do whatever we want. That's true. Your good might

00:39:29.920 be my bad. Whatever, some nonsense. But generally, conservatives have been historically pretty good

00:39:35.480 at saying, no, there is such a thing as good and bad, and we should be moral and not be vicious.

00:39:40.120 Okay. But conservatives are not so great at talking about that third transcendental of being,

00:39:46.280 beauty. When we're talking about the transcendentals, we're talking about the good, the true, and the

00:39:53.480 beautiful. That's what we're supposed to pursue. The good, the true, and the beautiful. And the

00:39:57.960 beautiful is really important here, too. Aesthetics is really important here, too. A man who is

00:40:02.560 considered one of the foundational conservative philosophers, Edmund Burke, was an aesthetic

00:40:06.780 philosopher. One of the most prominent conservative philosophers until he died a few years ago,

00:40:10.540 Roger Scruton, was in many ways an aesthetic philosopher. Beauty matters. Okay. The way we

00:40:17.100 look matters because we're sensible beings, right? We perceive things about the world,

00:40:24.640 and it affects the way that we live. This is why modern architecture is such a big problem. It's why

00:40:31.780 right-wing political movements have taken an issue with modern architecture and modern art. Going back

00:40:36.120 to Max Nordau writing the book Degeneracion on the unpleasant turn toward ugliness in modern art.

00:40:45.680 And that's a big problem for us. Conservatives have the confidence most of the time, some of the time

00:40:53.000 at least, to say, no, that's not true. That's false. You're not really a woman. You're a man.

00:40:58.980 And we're going to insist on that. We're pretty good at that. And we're okay, but not great at saying,

00:41:05.880 no, this is good, and this is bad, and we should do the good thing, not the bad thing. We need to

00:41:08.600 get better at that. But we're just abysmal at saying, no, this is beautiful. That's ugly.

00:41:12.680 Do the beautiful thing. Donald Trump, who was my favorite executive order he ever signed,

00:41:16.380 it had no teeth. It went nowhere. Biden rescinded it immediately. But it was the

00:41:20.180 Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again Act. He said, look, we have these beautiful old buildings in

00:41:27.240 Washington, D.C. Then we have this modern new trash that's so ugly, and it makes you ashamed to be in

00:41:32.160 Washington, D.C. Let's get rid of that stuff and make the new federal buildings neoclassical and

00:41:37.560 beautiful again. Let's do that. And let's reinstitute some dress codes. It's going to be 0.98

00:41:43.280 really hard. There was a case about this. The Harris Funeral Home case versus Equal Employment

00:41:47.900 Opportunity Commission went up to the Supreme Court, and it was about a confused man who worked in a

00:41:51.880 funeral home who thought that he was a woman, and he insisted on wearing a dress. And the owner of the

00:41:56.140 funeral home said, look, man, people are grieving. They're really fragile and vulnerable when they come

00:42:01.280 here. And this is not the place for you to make some bizarre, perverted political statement about

00:42:07.440 how you're really a woman. That's not what these people are here for. It's distracting. It's really, 1.00

00:42:11.200 when you're working at a funeral home, it's about the grieving families, okay? And stop making it about

00:42:14.800 you. You can't wear the dress. Put on pants like an adult, like a man. And then when you go home, 0.97

00:42:19.940 if you want to go wear drag to some seedy club at night, be my guest, but not while you work here.

00:42:24.160 And the confused man sued, and he won, unfortunately. He won the case. And so now

00:42:30.580 we're not allowed to enforce these things. It's very important for conservatives to dig back in

00:42:35.340 on this issue and just stop ceding the ground here. You think it's a little thing, how we dress,

00:42:41.160 what we wear, what we look like. But it truly affects the way we view the world because it

00:42:47.940 affects everything that we see. Speaking of dumb court decisions, a South Carolina judge has just ruled

00:42:53.300 that capital punishment, specifically by the electric chair or firing squad, is unconstitutional.

00:43:02.820 Now, how's that? This judge, Jocelyn Newman, ruled that this style of executions inflicted cruel

00:43:09.800 and unusual punishment. This nullifying a state law passed last year that forced death row inmates to

00:43:14.860 pick between one of those two methods with electrocution as the default procedure. So it's obviously not

00:43:21.960 cruel and unusual punishment. It's certainly not unusual, right? That's been a punishment for

00:43:27.060 many, many years, many, many decades, or centuries even, in some cases. And so a firing squad,

00:43:33.820 imagine how far back that goes. So it's obviously not unusual. And I don't think it's cruel.

00:43:38.940 In fact, I think those are some of the more humane ways to be executed.

00:43:42.140 So that's BS. Then she makes one more claim. She says, well, the electric chair law and the firing 1.00

00:43:52.600 squad law ignore advances in scientific research and evolving standards of humanity and decency.

00:43:58.400 And I think, first of all, do you think we have evolving standards of decency here?

00:44:02.660 Do you think they're evolving or devolving? Because I think we're transing the kids right now. 0.94

00:44:07.160 And I think that our public officials are wearing leather daddy pentagram straps and

00:44:12.420 leading around other human beings like they're doggies by a collar, okay? I think we're killing

00:44:17.760 800 plus thousand babies per year in America. I don't think we have any evolving standards of

00:44:23.000 decency. I think we have devolving standards of decency. And we have expanding standards of

00:44:27.560 degeneracy. So based on that, I don't know, you should be able to do anything. You should be able to

00:44:32.140 draw and quarter people based on where our current standards of decency are. But furthermore,

00:44:36.040 okay, you're admitting we can have standards. Good. Let's have standards. Let's have standards

00:44:39.800 when it comes to transing the kids. Let's have, or transgenderism generally. Let's have standards

00:44:45.000 when it comes to the weird pride parades and the people working for the Biden administration.

00:44:49.460 Let's have standards when it comes to our language, the kind of language that people use in public and

00:44:53.140 on TV. Let's have all sorts of standards. No, we're not allowed to have that. We're only allowed to

00:44:57.200 institute new radical leftist standards, which are evil, but we're not allowed

00:45:05.460 to embrace good traditional Christian standards. It's just a completely rigged game. There's no 0.99

00:45:11.660 argument here whatsoever. There's no principle here. It gets right back to what we were talking

00:45:14.980 about at the top of the show. It's just power. Okay. It's just, yeah, you question election.

00:45:21.260 Yeah, you're a terrorist. Get ready. We're going to bring the firing squad to you. But oh yeah,

00:45:25.300 a mass murderer was sentenced to death by firing squad. No. Yeah, that's sorry.

00:45:30.640 Evolving standards of decency. We need to let that guy out on the street.

00:45:33.120 He's probably a Democrat voter. You question the election. You're a terrorist. I question the

00:45:37.900 election. I'm defending our democracy. That's how it works. That's how it works. Okay. And so

00:45:43.320 we can either pull our hair out and say, where's the argument? You guys aren't being consistent.

00:45:47.320 You're being hypocrites. Yeah, they know they're being hypocrites. They don't care.

00:45:50.300 They don't care. Okay. The conclusion for us is we need to get power and we need to wield that power.

00:45:56.600 And there's nothing anti-conservative about that. There's nothing anti-American about it.

00:46:00.220 There's nothing fascistic. The word fascism doesn't mean anything. It's like

00:46:03.020 the word racism. It's just a word that they throw at us. It has no meaning. It has been

00:46:07.440 defined down into nothing. So just ignore it. Let it slide off you like water off of wax. Okay.

00:46:15.480 Evolving standards of decency. It's insane. Okay. They want to kill you. They want to kill you.

00:46:23.740 Hillary Clinton said on it, not just Hillary Clinton, the sitting Democrat Senator, Senator Warner,

00:46:29.300 not just them, the guy on CNN, not just the guy on CNN, even out of the White House. They're saying

00:46:34.360 you're fascists. You're terrorists. You're committing a capital offense. Your very existence poses an

00:46:39.680 existential threat to the country. They're saying they want to kill you. Okay. And we're here arguing

00:46:45.880 over, well, actually, do you think that the statute really in the spirit of the law allows us to get

00:46:50.520 rid of drag queens to air? Give me a break. Wield some power. Grow a spine. Good grief. 1.00

00:46:54.960 We're allowed to grow all sorts of other appendages these days in the transgender culture. How about we 1.00

00:46:59.280 grow a spine? That would be nice. Maybe a couple other appendages too would be good. The rest of

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The Michael Knowles Show - September 12, 2022

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