The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1131 - Ye Is Running For President

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00:00:37.700 The field of candidates planning to take on Joe Biden in 2024 has just doubled.

00:00:44.560 Yesterday, a week after President Trump announced that he would seek re-election,

00:00:50.480 Kanye West announced that he too will be running for president.

00:00:54.560 That's the H-24, you know what I'm talking about. 0.99

00:00:59.840 Oh, yeah.

00:01:04.040 So you are running.

00:01:10.160 Yes.

00:01:11.560 That's awesome, Kanye.

00:01:12.760 Simple.

00:01:13.740 Simple as that.

00:01:14.680 You know, if I tell me, you know, you should say this, you should say that.

00:01:19.180 You know, it's just we're moving towards the future.

00:01:23.280 Like, so what we do here is I'll cut up, you know, 100 hoodies from Yeezy, from Balenciaga,

00:01:31.580 from the stuff we did at Gaff, from the stuff we did at Adidas.

00:01:33.620 And everything we do is going to cost $20.

00:01:36.960 We need to make sure that everyone can receive the same level of cuts, the same level of food,

00:01:42.640 the same level of water, the same level of education, the curriculum, the engineering.

00:01:46.460 We're beings with engineering opportunities.

00:01:49.380 We're getting past the past.

00:01:50.840 We're focused on the future.

00:01:54.040 Focused on the future.

00:01:55.080 Some people are making fun of Yeezy's somewhat digressive campaign announcement.

00:02:01.020 But he is certainly no less coherent than the current occupant of the Oval Office.

00:02:05.500 Another potentially disqualifying factor would be his recent nasty comments on race,

00:02:11.800 particularly with regard to the Jews.

00:02:14.380 But then on that front, Kanye hasn't said anything more racially offensive than, say,

00:02:19.760 Joe Biden or Richard Nixon or LBJ or Woodrow Wilson.

00:02:25.780 The list goes on and on.

00:02:27.820 No, racist or anti-Semitic comments would not especially distinguish Kanye from past presidents

00:02:36.200 and presidential candidates.

00:02:37.720 What does distinguish him from past presidential candidates and what connects him with the only

00:02:43.880 other challenger candidate in the field right now is something much stranger.

00:02:48.220 Kanye West, like Donald Trump, is currently and consistently banned from large parts of the

00:02:57.620 social media, that is, from the public square.

00:03:00.720 They've recently had their Twitter access restored, but they are both still banned from Instagram.

00:03:06.240 Trump is banned from pretty much all of social media.

00:03:08.980 We're currently living in a country in which the entire field of the sitting president's declared

00:03:13.900 opponents are being largely censored out of the public square.

00:03:18.220 The very heart of self-government.

00:03:20.260 We've never seen anything like that before.

00:03:23.340 Whatever you think of Donald Trump or Kanye West, that poses a far more direct threat to

00:03:29.840 our republic than whatever either of them have to say.

00:03:33.580 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:34.500 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:35.460 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:43.780 My favorite comment yesterday is from Crystal Parker, who says,

00:03:46.840 It is so very obvious that Tia, oh, this is that actress lady, was attempting to explain

00:03:51.920 away her marriage failure.

00:03:54.060 I was thinking the whole time, was she trying to convince me or herself?

00:03:57.840 Seems to me she just felt like she needed to explain it all away and make it okay somehow.

00:04:02.060 It would have been much better to just admit failure, since we all fail and sin from time

00:04:07.460 to time.

00:04:07.880 That's so true, and it's something that in our culture, which largely views itself as

00:04:13.560 post-Christian, which rejects the wisdom and truth of Christianity, we can't acknowledge 0.98

00:04:20.060 when we sin and then repent and seek forgiveness.

00:04:23.520 Everything's got to be perfect.

00:04:24.780 Oh, it's good.

00:04:26.020 Oh, no, it's really, I'm really glad that I got divorced.

00:04:28.000 Oh, I'm really glad that I did a ton of drugs.

00:04:30.240 Oh, I'm really glad that I screwed up my whole life.

00:04:32.480 No, it's really good that I did that, actually.

00:04:34.920 Actually, when you really think about it, those are all wonderful things.

00:04:38.100 No, you don't need to pretend.

00:04:39.520 We all know that isn't true.

00:04:40.740 You're obviously just trying to convince yourself.

00:04:42.940 You can admit it.

00:04:43.700 You can say, I screwed up.

00:04:45.180 I messed up, and it was bad, and I messed things up for a lot of other people, too.

00:04:48.860 I'm sorry.

00:04:49.840 Please, God, forgive me.

00:04:50.860 You can say that, but it's very difficult to say that in a culture that no longer believes in

00:04:56.560 God, because then you don't get forgiveness, and then you go crazy, as our culture has.

00:05:03.280 When we get a little bit crazy, I, especially in the morning when I wake up, I feel very,

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00:06:25.560 Speaking of Kanye, you heard there in his sort of meandering campaign announcement, Kanye

00:06:30.640 referred to Balenciaga.

00:06:32.580 Balenciaga is a very high-end luxury fashion house.

00:06:36.540 And Kanye had a deal with Balenciaga.

00:06:40.160 And Balenciaga has weird imagery for a long time.

00:06:42.960 I mean, one of their runway fashion shows was in a bunch of mud and dirt, black, and it 0.92

00:06:48.180 all looked kind of demonic.

00:06:49.620 And it's weird to begin with.

00:06:51.500 Well, they just put out some ads that are more disturbing than anything that I had ever

00:06:57.360 seen from them.

00:06:58.780 It's this ad.

00:07:00.200 It was right on their website.

00:07:01.200 Of these two little girls, very little girls standing on a bed or on a sofa, surrounded by

00:07:09.300 some Balenciaga products, holding little stuffed animals that are wearing weird sex gear, like

00:07:16.240 weird S&M, leather, chains, harnesses, all that kind of stuff.

00:07:21.800 And so that, in and of itself, is very disturbing.

00:07:26.380 And you say, why are these kids?

00:07:27.380 And the kids don't look particularly happy.

00:07:28.900 We blurt out their faces. 0.94

00:07:30.060 But the look on their face on the website, not very happy.

00:07:33.300 You say, why are these kids holding this weird, not just sexual symbol, but actually

00:07:39.080 sadistic sexual symbol?

00:07:41.500 A kind of sexual symbol that involves pain.

00:07:43.700 That seems, ugh, really, really weird.

00:07:45.400 But then, if you zoom in, you can see that there are some weird papers underneath the

00:07:51.420 Balenciaga handbag and some other items that they're selling.

00:07:56.920 And if you really zoom in on one of them, you can see speech coalition is just a line

00:08:03.740 of text, and it refers to sexual depiction, but some of it's covered up.

00:08:06.980 It's hard to read.

00:08:07.360 So, if you look up the text, if you just pull out some of the fragments of the sentences,

00:08:13.660 you see that the case that this comes from is United States v. Williams.

00:08:20.660 This is a Supreme Court case from 2008.

00:08:24.080 And it was a decision by the Supreme Court that a federal statute prohibiting the pandering

00:08:30.440 of child pornography did not violate the First Amendment.

00:08:36.540 So, I guess that's good.

00:08:38.680 I mean, this was a good decision that said, yeah, you can ban people from not peddling

00:08:44.200 kiddie porn, and that doesn't violate their First Amendment. 0.99

00:08:48.480 But it is just weird that the Balenciaga company is not only putting kids in these weird sexual

00:08:58.820 associations, but then referring to child pornography not all that subtly in the advertisement.

00:09:05.320 And then the case that is referred to within that case, United States v. Williams, is a case

00:09:10.100 called Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, which was a case that determined whether or not

00:09:16.400 simulated child pornography was protected by the First Amendment.

00:09:20.940 And the Supreme Court wrongly concluded that simulated child porn was, in fact, protected

00:09:28.500 by the First Amendment.

00:09:29.320 So, we're not talking about child pornography of actual kids being exploited, but, you know,

00:09:35.380 cartoons or very highly developed renderings that look just like kids, but they're not

00:09:41.640 actually real kids, that that kind of porn is protected, which is really, really disturbing.

00:09:49.720 So, now, how do we read this?

00:09:51.080 It's kind of a strange juxtaposition here, because you've got one case that was so wrongly

00:09:55.100 decided that advances child pornography.

00:09:56.840 You've got the other case, which is the actual text that's there underneath the bag that suppresses

00:10:02.520 child pornography.

00:10:03.720 And then you've got these kids with these weird sexual associations. 0.67

00:10:06.520 It's just, I don't know, I feel like a conspiracy theorist even bringing this up.

00:10:12.520 But then what have we learned over the past three years, at least?

00:10:17.220 The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about three to six months. 0.81

00:10:21.360 And we've heard little murmurs of weird child porn, child sex stuff throughout the culture.

00:10:31.480 And they're always poo-pooed as a sort of crazy conspiracy theory. 0.95

00:10:34.880 There go you radical right-wingers with your tinfoil hats again.

00:10:38.380 I don't want to hear that, okay? 0.98

00:10:40.180 Obviously, the weird kid sex stuff is happening.

00:10:45.280 That's not a crazy conspiracy theory.

00:10:47.400 We know it's happening.

00:10:49.440 We uncovered one of the biggest child sex rings in the world. 0.97

00:10:53.740 That was called Jeffrey Epstein and his creepy pedo island. 0.98

00:10:57.460 That was all real.

00:10:58.860 And it involved some of the most famous, wealthy, powerful people on planet Earth,

00:11:03.320 who took dozens of trips on the Lolita Express.

00:11:05.760 Yes, Jeffrey Epstein palling around with royalty, with major CEOs, blackmail, compromat galore.

00:11:12.720 When Jeffrey Epstein was first prosecuted for this, according to then U.S. attorney,

00:11:17.100 then future nominee for labor secretary, Alex Acosta, Acosta was told,

00:11:22.260 don't deal with Epstein.

00:11:23.820 Epstein belongs to intelligence, okay?

00:11:26.000 So obviously, this stuff is real.

00:11:28.800 And I don't want to hear it, okay?

00:11:30.800 I don't want to hear, oh, you guys, you're looking too much into this Balenciaga ad.

00:11:35.360 It's just, it's a totally harmless image of a little kid looking sad, holding an S&M teddy bear,

00:11:41.480 standing on top of a Supreme Court case about child pornography.

00:11:44.320 I don't want to hear it.

00:11:45.180 It's, all of that stuff is real, okay?

00:11:47.120 And right now, if you present to me CNN and Alex Jones or whoever, insert radical,

00:11:55.520 crazy conspiracy theorist right winger, I am going to be much more inclined to believe the latter.

00:12:00.500 The latter have a much better record.

00:12:02.120 And the former are not only dishonest and frequently wrong in their stories,

00:12:06.580 but they're shills for the power structure that is so obviously corrupt and so obviously creepy

00:12:12.100 and weird.

00:12:13.920 Explain that ad to me.

00:12:16.920 Explain that ad to me.

00:12:18.140 In the world in which we know that the creepy petto island is real.

00:12:22.820 Explain that ad to me as something totally innocent.

00:12:25.800 I just don't see how you could.

00:12:28.140 Speaking of conspiracy theories, we found out another conspiracy theory is real.

00:12:32.640 CBS News, take it away.

00:12:33.800 As Republicans take control of the House, Hunter Biden, the president's son,

00:12:39.020 will be a target for investigations.

00:12:41.640 And that means data from a laptop reported to belong to Biden could be crucial to the

00:12:46.920 investigatory process.

00:12:48.260 CBS News has obtained its data, not through a third party or political operative,

00:12:53.960 but directly from the source who told us they provided it to the FBI under subpoena.

00:12:59.700 And we commissioned an independent forensic review to determine its authenticity.

00:13:05.660 Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Harrods joins us now with what we found.

00:13:09.400 Catherine, I'm very interested.

00:13:10.700 Good morning.

00:13:11.820 Good morning, Tony.

00:13:12.640 The laptop data we had analyzed showed no evidence it was faked or tampered with.

00:13:17.880 You're confident based on your analysis this is Hunter Biden's data and that it's real.

00:13:22.780 Yes.

00:13:23.720 Wow.

00:13:24.760 Breaking news from CBS telling us something that every sensible person has known

00:13:29.680 for two years.

00:13:32.140 But two years ago, we weren't allowed to talk about that.

00:13:35.140 We actually weren't allowed to talk about it even on social media, not even just publicly post.

00:13:39.700 You weren't allowed to privately message a New York Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop

00:13:44.700 because the entire power structure clamped down on it and said, no, this is disinformation.

00:13:49.520 It wasn't.

00:13:50.020 It was completely true.

00:13:51.520 Now CBS is breaking news.

00:13:52.860 Our independent forensic investigators have proven.

00:13:55.080 Oh, you couldn't.

00:13:57.480 Could you guys not have hired those independent forensic investigators sometime over the past

00:14:03.160 two years, maybe during the presidential campaign or even like six months later, six months after

00:14:07.660 that or six months after that?

00:14:08.740 No, just now.

00:14:09.980 Just now that Hunter Biden is about to be investigated and it's all over and the Republicans retook

00:14:15.840 the house.

00:14:16.140 Now is exactly the time.

00:14:17.700 It's so transparent what they're doing and it just, they're doing it to save face because

00:14:24.700 when it's obviously the case that the Hunter Biden laptop is real, which we all already

00:14:29.160 know, then they'll be able to say, no, we ran this report.

00:14:31.460 We're the serious news people.

00:14:32.520 It's so transparent what they're doing. 0.93

00:14:34.260 These guys are liars and hacks and propagandists and they're covering up for very bad people doing 0.97

00:14:39.100 very bad things. 0.99

00:14:40.040 And there is no reason to take a word that they have to say seriously.

00:14:45.420 A random right-wing lunatic broadcasting from his RV on a shortwave radio has more journalistic

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00:15:31.380 Speaking of conspiracy theorists, the race for a Democrat minority leader in the House

00:15:38.100 is on.

00:15:39.100 You know, Nancy Pelosi has lost her gavel. 1.00

00:15:41.480 She's no longer the speaker.

00:15:42.860 She's not interested in being the Democrat minority leader in the House.

00:15:46.460 So she's out.

00:15:47.180 Now someone's got to replace her. 1.00

00:15:49.260 The leading candidate to replace her is this guy, Hakeem Jeffries.

00:15:53.040 Hakeem Jeffries is a radical left-winger.

00:15:55.680 If the name Jeffries sounds familiar, it's because his uncle, Professor Jeffries, was a CUNY professor

00:16:04.820 who popularized the idea that white people are the people of the ice, and black people

00:16:10.620 are the people of the sun. 1.00

00:16:12.560 And the white people are intrinsically evil, and the black people are intrinsically good. 1.00

00:16:17.880 And the white people don't really have souls. 1.00

00:16:20.680 And you remember all that stuff that Nick Cannon was talking about a few years ago, how 1.00

00:16:24.660 the white people are like animals and dogs and just evil, evil people. 1.00

00:16:29.220 And then the black people are the only good people. 1.00

00:16:32.600 Well, that comes from Hakeem Jeffries' uncle, who was allowed to get away with this for years

00:16:37.320 and years and years.

00:16:38.280 Eventually, he sort of strayed into the anti-Semitic territory as well.

00:16:42.820 And so he really kind of broadened his attacks.

00:16:45.980 And eventually, he went down.

00:16:47.560 I mean, that kind of took him down.

00:16:49.400 But he was allowed to spread his bile and filth for a very long time.

00:16:52.540 The whole, I don't mean to imply guilt by association here for Hakeem Jeffries, but when

00:16:56.760 we hear Hakeem Jeffries say radical leftist things, it's important to know the context.

00:17:02.500 This guy comes from an extremely radical, somewhat prominent family, especially in New York.

00:17:07.020 And so Hakeem Jeffries has peddled the most left-wing kind of wacky theories, including

00:17:13.080 that the 2016 election was illegitimate.

00:17:18.060 Take a listen.

00:17:18.920 There's a cloud of illegitimacy hanging over the White House right now.

00:17:24.720 Russia interfered with our election for the exclusive purpose of trying to artificially

00:17:29.380 place Donald Trump at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

00:17:32.640 He wants to continue to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.

00:17:35.400 Donald Trump's going to continue to stand for Vladimir Putin, and that's shameful.

00:17:39.620 They're under criminal investigation in terms of the Trump campaign's possible role in

00:17:44.520 colluding with Russian spies to attack our democracy.

00:17:48.580 It seems that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian spies to sell out our democracy,

00:17:54.160 and now you have members closely affiliated with the Trump administration and possibly

00:17:58.620 the president who are engaged in the cover-up.

00:18:01.140 Seventeen different intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered with our election,

00:18:07.700 attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania

00:18:15.040 Avenue.

00:18:17.260 Artificially placing Trump.

00:18:20.000 Trump is an artificial president. 0.96

00:18:21.940 Trump is an illegitimate president.

00:18:23.560 What does that sound like to you?

00:18:25.660 It sounds like election denial.

00:18:30.460 He's a denier of the election.

00:18:33.340 Oh my gosh, he's like the January 6th people, except he's not. 0.99

00:18:38.000 Yes, it is a little bit awkward and a little bit hypocritical to think that the Democrats

00:18:45.340 who have spent the last two years screaming until they're blue in the face about the evils

00:18:50.520 of election denial and the threat that that poses to our sacred democracy and how if you 0.92

00:18:56.600 ever question the results of an election, you're evil, you're a terrorist, you need to be cast

00:19:00.680 into the outer darkness, it is a little bit awkward if those Democrats now make an election

00:19:05.740 denier their leader.

00:19:09.040 But it won't matter.

00:19:10.720 I'm telling you now, it won't matter.

00:19:13.620 And Republicans are probably not going to figure it out until it's too late and we're going to 0.84

00:19:18.680 waste a lot of time shouting, look at the hypocrisy.

00:19:22.160 Look, if the shoe were on the other foot, look, can you imagine if the roles were reversed?

00:19:26.260 They don't care.

00:19:28.080 They don't care.

00:19:29.620 They agree with Hakeem Jeffries.

00:19:31.740 They do think the 2016 election was illegitimate.

00:19:34.420 Whether Vladimir Putin did anything or not, the libs believe that any time the Republicans

00:19:39.240 win an election, that that is illegitimate.

00:19:42.000 That it was either the result of some fraud or even more broadly, it was the result of the

00:19:48.280 misinformation that has lulled people into a false consciousness to vote against their

00:19:52.940 interests because no sensible person would ever vote for a Republican.

00:19:56.440 So that's what they believe.

00:19:58.480 And so anytime the Democrats win, that's legit.

00:20:01.220 Anytime the Republicans win, that is not legit.

00:20:04.760 To quote Adrian Vermeule, the great Harvard law professor, as I quote him frequently, it's

00:20:09.620 not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy.

00:20:12.400 It's just they get to play by a different set of rules, okay?

00:20:16.020 And so it won't matter.

00:20:16.840 It's like when Republicans say, well, Democrats are the real racists, right?

00:20:20.740 Democrats accuse us of being racists. 0.78

00:20:22.860 And then the Republican response is, no, you're the racists.

00:20:27.260 That's never going to work because by definition, according to the left, the Republicans are 0.69

00:20:34.380 racists and they're always racists.

00:20:36.880 And the Democrats are not racists and can never be racists.

00:20:41.080 Racism, according to the Democrats, is whenever someone does something that the Democrats don't

00:20:46.920 like, that's racism.

00:20:49.240 I will never forget when a liberal caller to a talk radio show coincidentally hosted by David Webb

00:20:56.600 was disagreeing with him over something.

00:20:59.120 I don't even remember what the issue was.

00:21:00.700 And she said on the radio, well, David, you only say that because of your white privilege.

00:21:05.980 And this was very funny because David Webb, for those of you who know him, is very much 0.92

00:21:10.700 a black man.

00:21:11.760 He is not a white man.

00:21:13.360 But this was radio and the caller couldn't see him.

00:21:16.160 And she just went to that.

00:21:17.540 She just goes to that because that's just what the Democrats go to. 0.99

00:21:20.820 Whenever you disagree with them, you are a racist. 1.00

00:21:23.880 You're a white supremacist. 1.00

00:21:25.160 You have white privilege. 0.99

00:21:26.540 And so it won't matter. 1.00

00:21:28.280 And it is a fool's errand to retort and say, well, no, you're the real racists. 0.99

00:21:33.960 They don't care about that. 1.00

00:21:35.540 They just care about beating you. 0.95

00:21:37.860 OK, they don't care about election denial.

00:21:40.120 Of course they don't.

00:21:40.860 They're the ones who deny the elections going at least back to the year 2000.

00:21:44.440 And they've denied elections a hell of a lot more than Republicans have and with far less

00:21:48.180 reason than Republicans have had.

00:21:49.840 They just want to beat you. 0.97

00:21:51.300 And so you can say, no, but don't you see the hypocrisy? 0.96

00:21:53.860 Maybe they do, but they don't care.

00:21:56.220 OK, they just don't view it that way, which is why we need to win.

00:22:01.180 We need to stop trying to convince them of their own hypocrisy about which they do not

00:22:06.460 care. 0.85

00:22:06.780 We just have to win.

00:22:07.960 OK, and so you're seeing a major fight play out in the Senate right now.

00:22:11.800 And very few people are talking about it.

00:22:14.220 The liberals aren't talking about it because they think they've got the fight in the bag. 0.98

00:22:17.000 And the Republicans aren't talking about it because they're absolute cowards and moral 1.00

00:22:20.380 idiots. 1.00

00:22:20.960 But we need to focus on this. 1.00

00:22:22.560 This is a very important fight.

00:22:23.640 It's over the redefinition of marriage and the not only destruction of the institution

00:22:30.760 of marriage, but the obliteration of religious liberty from American public life.

00:22:34.960 And this is through something called the Respect for Marriage Act, most preposterous euphemism

00:22:39.720 we've ever had in American law.

00:22:41.540 And what the Respect for Marriage Act does is it not only enshrines the legal definition

00:22:46.840 of marriage from Obergefell, which is preposterous, but it actually goes much further than that.

00:22:52.120 And it prevents lots and lots of Americans from objecting in any significant way to that

00:22:58.020 radical redefinition of marriage.

00:22:59.360 So if you believe, as do Christians and Jews and Muslims and sensible people throughout all

00:23:08.360 of history until five minutes ago, if you believe, as did Barack Obama in 2011, well into his first

00:23:13.280 term, that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, that sexual difference has

00:23:18.480 something to do with marriage, then you're basically booted from public life at this point, if you express

00:23:23.860 that in any significant way, if this law passes, it's a disaster. And a dozen squish morally vacuous

00:23:32.040 Republicans and intellectually vacuous Republicans voted for this thing. So they voted to get past

00:23:39.340 the filibuster, which means now it's on a fast track to get a vote. We can still hold this thing

00:23:45.120 up a little bit. We're not going to defeat the bill. The bill is going to pass. But what Mike Lee,

00:23:50.440 the great senator from Utah, who came pretty close to losing his reelection bid, and we had him on

00:23:56.100 this show because it was just awful to think that Mike Lee was not going to win reelection.

00:24:00.440 Well, Mike Lee coming to the rescue here with the Lee Amendment to give protections for Christians 0.97

00:24:06.540 and Jews and Muslims and sensible agnostics and atheists too, to be able to express the real meaning

00:24:13.140 of marriage without facing punishment from the federal government in the public square.

00:24:18.240 And we'll get into what that amendment does, because it should help you rest a little bit

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00:25:50.640 MICHAEL. Hurry, this special Black Friday offer ends November 27th. Mike Lee coming to the rescue

00:25:56.200 here to insert this amendment into the new redefining marriage bill in the Senate. Why does this matter?

00:26:03.400 A lot of conservatives write in. They say, you know, Michael, I'm with you on a lot of things,

00:26:06.120 but I just don't care about this marriage stuff. If the gays want to get married and be as miserable 1.00

00:26:09.780 as the rest of us, you know, who cares? That's fine by me. And ha ha, yes, I know, we all tell 1.00

00:26:14.020 that joke. It's a little bit glib, but I get it. It's a kind of funny barb. However, it obviously

00:26:18.900 matters. It obviously matters because marriage is the fundamental political institution. It's the 1.00

00:26:25.020 building block of all of politics. The libs think and want for the building block of politics to just

00:26:31.780 be the individual because it's much easier to dominate individuals when they're atomized and

00:26:35.900 broken up from intermediating institutions, most notably the family. The conservatives understand

00:26:40.360 that the family is key and the family is not just some socially constructed institution where we can

00:26:45.740 say, okay, we're going to make a polycule with three girls and two guys and a goat, and that's going 0.97

00:26:49.880 to be the new definition of a family. No, marriage is not socially constructed. There are social aspects to

00:26:55.700 it and intellectualized and ritualized aspects to it, but it is a natural institution as Aristotle

00:27:02.640 observed, as St. Thomas Aquinas observed, as smart people throughout all of human history have observed

00:27:07.080 because man is naturally a pairing being. We are drawn to the complementarity of the sexes and by the

00:27:13.360 complementarity of the sexes, and within that unit of one man and one woman, there is the possibility

00:27:20.300 of life, and marriage is instituted for the good of the spouses and the sake of the generation and the

00:27:26.060 education of children. Okay, that is what the thing is for, and so if you find yourself in a position

00:27:33.560 where you say, well, who cares? I just don't care. I just don't see what the big deal is. Then maybe ask

00:27:37.540 yourself, why don't you see what the big deal is? Maybe just take a step back and say, you know,

00:27:44.640 with a little bit of humility here, this institution has been viewed for all of human history by all the

00:27:52.460 smartest people and pretty much everyone else too as extremely important, and it still remains viewed as

00:28:00.140 extremely important by the liberal activists who are trying to radically redefine it. And actually, the only

00:28:05.980 people ever in the history of the world who don't think this thing matters is just like me and some of my

00:28:12.280 live and let live kind of laissez-faire libertarian friends. Why is that? Maybe you're missing

00:28:20.840 something here. Maybe a lot of people are missing something here as to why this thing has been viewed as so

00:28:25.120 important by pretty much everybody ever. So what the Lee Amendment proposes is based on an infamous exchange

00:28:32.420 from the Obergefell decision that redefined marriage. And it was when Sam Alito, conservative judge, asked

00:28:38.960 whether religious universities that were opposed to same-sex marriage would lose their tax-exempt

00:28:43.360 status if marriage were redefined at the federal level. And Verrilli, speaking for the government,

00:28:49.200 said, it's certainly going to be an issue. I don't deny that. I don't deny that, Justice Alito. It is

00:28:54.980 going to be an issue. So Mike Lee writes, it is an issue. Obergefell did not make a private right of

00:29:00.480 action for aggrieved individuals to sue those who oppose same-sex marriage. It did not create a mandate

00:29:05.160 for the Department of Justice to sue where it perceived an institution opposed same-sex marriage, but the

00:29:10.600 Respect for Marriage Act will. This radical bill that the libs are pushing through, that the squish Republicans 0.77

00:29:15.640 are going along with. What we can expect, should this bill become law, is more litigation against those

00:29:22.020 institutions and individuals trying to live according to their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral

00:29:26.400 convictions. And even most absurdly, the people who are going to be on the back foot here and who are going to

00:29:32.960 have to constantly defend themselves against lawsuits are going to be the people with sincerely

00:29:36.580 held religious beliefs and moral convictions that are correct. They're not just sincerely held,

00:29:42.220 they're true. And they're going to be the ones who are going to be destroyed by this. We're all going

00:29:46.360 to be Jack Phillips. We're all going to be Masterpiece Cake Shop. It will obliterate any defense of what is now

00:29:52.680 called traditional marriage. It's also known as marriage. It's going to obliterate what remains of

00:29:58.800 that defense from the public square. I urge you, call your congressmen. Call your senators. Tell them

00:30:05.480 to vote against this bill at least until the Lee Amendment is adopted. It might be a largely lost

00:30:14.300 cause for the moment to defeat the bill entirely, which we should do. We can, I think, still get the

00:30:19.300 Lee Amendment through. Call your senator, especially if your senator is one of the dozen squishes who voted 0.99

00:30:25.280 to override the filibuster and get this thing on a fast track. Call your senator and tell them to

00:30:31.760 stop this nonsense. Speaking of LGBT politics, LGBT politics, identity politics is everywhere these 0.82

00:30:38.600 days, including the head of FIFA, including the head of the International Soccer Organization,

00:30:43.660 who made this odd declaration the other day. Today I feel gay. 0.86

00:30:54.660 I don't have much commentary for that. I think that's just the whole quote. The head of

00:31:02.200 International Soccer says, I feel gay. There it is. It's everywhere. That identity, 0.83

00:31:11.080 that identity is everywhere. Even at the World Cup in Qatar. Okay, that's very much in the zeitgeist.

00:31:16.360 It's very much in the spirit of the age. We need to make sure, though, that these sorts of political

00:31:22.720 fashions do not go so far as to destroy the institutions and building blocks of society.

00:31:31.140 Speaking of the Middle East, I don't know if you heard. I don't know if you heard about the biggest,

00:31:38.960 most important news story ever, according to the liberal establishment media.

00:31:45.140 Joe Biden is not going to destroy U.S.-Saudi relations at a time of a major energy crisis,

00:31:55.280 where we are reliant on cooperation with Saudi Arabia not to plunge the world even further 0.80

00:32:00.200 into recession. Biden is not going to throw all that away over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

00:32:09.640 Do you remember Jamal Khashoggi? Jamal Khashoggi. Well, I won't tell you. I'll just tell you what

00:32:18.700 the Washington Post and the liberal media say about Jamal Khashoggi. Jamal Khashoggi was a Washington

00:32:26.120 Post columnist. He was a journalist who was targeted by the evil Saudi regime and murdered 0.97

00:32:33.840 because he stood up for journalism and the intrepid free press, and Joe Biden is letting

00:32:41.740 this man get away with murder. Okay, and that's basically the gist of the statement issued by the

00:32:48.040 Washington Post. Now, the problem with that narrative is it isn't true, or it's got a little

00:32:53.360 kernel of truth that gives it credibility, but that kernel of truth is stretched in such a way

00:33:00.860 that it hides the reality of this man. I'm not defending the Saudis killing this guy, Jamal Khashoggi,

00:33:08.120 but what I am telling you is they didn't kill a Washington Post columnist. Jamal Khashoggi was a

00:33:13.440 career political operative and spy for Saudi Arabia, who was on the outs with the now dominant part of

00:33:19.660 the Saudi royal family. Jamal Khashoggi was palling around with Osama bin Laden decades ago. Okay,

00:33:24.960 Jamal Khashoggi is not some columnist. Yes, he wrote some columns. We've all written some columns,

00:33:32.480 okay? The column thing, the writing for the Washington Post thing was a cover for his actual

00:33:39.340 job, which is that he was a political operative in a very dangerous part of the world, in a very

00:33:44.260 dangerous kingdom, doing very dangerous stuff, including espionage, and he wound up being

00:33:50.420 assassinated by a rival political power. It's ugly. It's an ugly business, but this is not a man bites

00:33:59.320 dog story here, okay? This sort of thing happens all the time in the world of power politics and

00:34:06.060 espionage, okay? And what's really interesting about the story is not that the Saudi regime killed

00:34:11.540 a dissident. That happens all the time. What's interesting about the story is not that a political

00:34:16.920 power has gone after and punished dissidents. That happens all the time too. That happens in every

00:34:23.180 regime ever. What's really interesting here is the way that the media were able to spin up this whole

00:34:30.860 narrative to get people to pull their hair out, to rend their garments over Jamal Khashoggi. If you were

00:34:38.760 one of the people, they got really worked up over Jamal Khashoggi. Did you ever ask yourself why?

00:34:47.020 Did you ever say why? This guy I had never heard of before, all of a sudden I am meant to really,

00:34:54.100 really feel for, and I'm feeling very emotional over this person. And it's actually happening. It's

00:35:01.400 not only that the Washington Post wants me to feel that way, I am feeling that way. Do you ever ask

00:35:05.520 yourself why? Maybe that you're being manipulated? You see this with every current thing. Whatever the

00:35:12.440 current thing is, people just get wrapped up in it. The war in Ukraine. War in Ukraine is a very sad

00:35:19.940 thing. War is a very sad thing. There are lots of wars going on all over the world right now. Why the

00:35:25.400 war in Ukraine? Why did everyone change their picture on Twitter to be the Ukrainian flag?

00:35:30.480 Why? Why are you, you, I'm not saying you, if you're listening to this show, you're probably

00:35:36.340 more knowledgeable about politics than 99.5% of people in the world. But for the people who just

00:35:43.860 change their flag, who don't really pay very close attention to this stuff, these people, I promise

00:35:49.020 you, don't know anything about Ukraine. They don't know anything about Russia. They don't know anything

00:35:52.320 about the millennium-long conflict in that region. They don't know anything about the stakes of the war.

00:35:56.260 They don't know anything about the 2014 revolution, Maidan revolution. They don't know anything about

00:36:01.420 international participation in Ukrainian politics. They don't know anything about the expansion of

00:36:07.080 NATO. They don't know anything about anything, okay? But they're just convinced. They get wrapped

00:36:11.240 up in that. And then a week later, they're gone. They forget about Ukraine, okay? Remember net neutrality?

00:36:16.420 Remember when we were all going to die from net neutrality? People actually said, prominent blue

00:36:20.500 Czech people said, if net neutrality goes through, people will die. Most people don't even know what

00:36:27.260 net neutrality is. But net neutrality was repealed. It had been instituted. It was repealed.

00:36:35.540 And no one died. It was okay. You remember Coney 2012? Many of you are probably too young to

00:36:42.180 remember. There was this social media phenomenon. Coney 2012. Everyone changed their pictures on Facebook.

00:36:46.960 We're going to get Coney. Who's Coney? He's some random guy running around Africa doing all sorts 0.99

00:36:51.440 of bad things. But no one, he's just some minor warlord. But he just, he became the current thing.

00:36:56.780 Whenever one of these causes happens, these sort of cause celeb, these cause du jour,

00:37:01.760 I don't know why I'm speaking French so much, but they have a lot of phrases for the thing that I'm

00:37:05.160 describing. When this stuff pops up, the current thing, before you change your Twitter picture,

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00:38:38.720 Speaking of things not to care about, on the order of net neutrality, the Jamal Khashoggi affair,

00:38:48.480 all the things to really worry yourself about. There's another one to add to the list.

00:38:53.780 Michelle Obama is complaining. Not exactly a major breaking news headline. Michelle Obama does nothing 1.00

00:39:02.900 but complain. But Michelle Obama is complaining this time about how when her husband was elected 0.99

00:39:09.940 president, Americans were not ready for her natural hair. I don't know what Michelle Obama's natural hair 1.00

00:39:18.500 looks like. I truly couldn't possibly care less what Michelle Obama's natural hair looks like. 1.00

00:39:26.420 Michelle Obama was giving an interview to Ellen DeGeneres. This was reported by The Independent.

00:39:32.200 We don't have a clip of it, but we do have the quote. She said, let me keep my hair straight. Let's get

00:39:39.300 healthcare passed first. They tripped out when Barack wore a tan suit, you know? The great indignity,

00:39:45.940 the scandal of the Obama administration is when Barack wore a tan suit. So everyone was on edge

00:39:52.420 to criticize Obama. And she just said, I don't know if I can wear my natural hair. The code of

00:39:56.960 ethics at a workplace, as black women, we deal with it. The whole thing about, do you show up with your 1.00

00:40:01.580 natural hair? I would get my staff all worried too. I was like, I was thinking about getting braids.

00:40:07.100 That's the African American experience. But women in offices that are worried, should I wear skirts? 1.00

00:40:12.320 Should I wear pantyhose? I hate pantyhose. But when you're carrying all this other stuff, this mask,

00:40:18.760 these differences, and you're trying to do your job, it's just an extra burden on overcoming.

00:40:25.540 So I'm going to get that out now. You know, I know some people like it when I play ukulele

00:40:29.900 or sometimes guitar. So I'm just going to pull out. And there it is.

00:40:35.020 The world's tiniest little Stradivarius violin.

00:40:41.540 There we go. Just play that out for the burdens of Michelle Obama to overcome the completely 0.85

00:40:52.020 absurdly perceived stigma again about how she wears her hair. 0.99

00:40:58.740 The people of the United States had just elected her husband, Barack Hussein Obama,

00:41:09.840 to be the president of the United States. We had been at war against, at least initially,

00:41:20.180 a man named Hussein for five years at that point. And really, actually, much longer. U.S. policy

00:41:27.640 against Saddam Hussein had gone back to the early 90s. And we are told that what the American people

00:41:33.760 just were not ready for, it was Michelle Obama's hair. Barack Obama wore his natural hair, by the

00:41:37.940 way, first black president. No, but it's all about Michelle. And it's all, America elected the first

00:41:44.580 black president, but no, they're still evil and racist. The American people, they gave Michelle 0.99

00:41:50.000 Obama an absolute fairytale life. No, they're still, it's so awful for her. It's so terrible.

00:41:54.580 This is the burden of overcoming. This is what black people, this is what makes their lives so 1.00

00:41:59.380 difficult. You know, do you show up with natural hair? Now, I defer to the black listeners of this 1.00

00:42:05.840 show. Is that, that's the biggest problem in your life? How to wear your, what hairstyle to have at 0.98

00:42:13.040 the office? I bet not. I bet not. When I think about long conversations with my black friends,

00:42:20.560 they don't usually bring up how to wear their hair as the biggest challenge. They have real problems.

00:42:27.760 Michelle Obama doesn't have any real problems. And so she has to make up problems. Because 1.00

00:42:32.640 the Obamas, like the libs broadly, cannot take yes for an answer. They can't take yes for an answer.

00:42:42.280 It's, there's always got to be a problem. Their, their, racism will never go away. It can't go away.

00:42:50.200 According to the libs, because that's, that's the premise they're starting from. They need it.

00:42:55.400 Okay. Oppression, suffering, all these things. Look, evil never, never will go away. Not until,

00:43:02.620 not during this period of earth, right? Not until the second coming. We're not, we're not going to say,

00:43:06.880 this is a fallen world. Okay. So there's always going to be evil and suffering. And the good way

00:43:11.960 to react to evil and suffering is with a spirit of resignation and with virtue. And so that you can

00:43:18.780 allow suffering to sanctify you. This was a line, I think it was from St. Jose Maria Escriva, who said,

00:43:25.100 never say that person annoys me. Say, oh, that person sanctifies me. We're all going to be going at

00:43:32.600 Thanksgiving to visit our family. Maybe you've got a difficult family. Maybe you've got some, you know,

00:43:37.240 sibling or cousin or in-law or something that drives you crazy. No, that person doesn't annoy you.

00:43:42.000 That person sanctifies you. And if you cultivate that attitude, I promise you,

00:43:48.120 it doesn't matter how terrible the, the suffering is, you will be buoyant. We talked about this earlier,

00:43:57.000 I guess it was last week with Jay Leno. Jay Leno just suffered horrible burns, but he's buoyant. He

00:44:01.580 bounced right back. He was giving out cookies to the kids in the, in the hospital that he was,

00:44:05.700 he was being treated at. Okay. If you cultivate those virtues, no, no amount of suffering is going

00:44:13.220 to keep you down for very long. If you don't, if all you do is cultivate resentment and envy and

00:44:20.340 anger and all the stuff that Michelle Obama does, then no amount of privilege will ever make you feel 0.86

00:44:27.840 happy. You can be the first lady of the United States and you will still be angry about how you,

00:44:36.240 in your fantasies, your hair might be perceived. Okay. There is no limit to the things that you will

00:44:43.860 complain about if you, if you cultivate those things. We get, you know, have vice and virtue are

00:44:50.300 habits. Okay. And you, and you get what you do and what you cultivate. Now, speaking of vices,

00:44:57.460 queen of all vices, pride. And there was a very strange claim made on The View yesterday. This is

00:45:02.760 by Sunny Hostin, uh, who she's kind of the B team of The View. She's not Whoopi. She's not Joy Behar,

00:45:09.180 but she's one of the libs on the, well, they're all libs on The View, but she's, she's one of the 1.00

00:45:12.700 more eccentric ones. And, and she made a theological claim that I'm no trained theologian,

00:45:20.480 but it left me scratching my head. They were in a place that accepts them for who they were.

00:45:24.900 And someone came to that place. And that's what is so sad. I don't know that they hide behind

00:45:29.140 religion because I said this on this show once before. Jesus would be the grand marshal at the 0.87

00:45:33.320 parade parade. I don't mean about gay people. I mean in every argument we have, you weaponize 0.98

00:45:38.600 religion. Here's my question, but it's wrong. If you're so afraid, why are you going over there? 1.00

00:45:45.000 Yeah. If they scare you so much, leave them alone.

00:45:51.380 Jesus would be the grand marshal of the pride parade? What does that even mean? I get in a sense, 0.71

00:45:59.820 uh, Christ is king of the universe. And so he's grand marshal of all of creation.

00:46:03.920 And I guess there are pride parades in some places in creation, but what is that? I don't

00:46:08.600 think that's what she's referring to. What does that mean? Jesus would be the grand marshal of

00:46:12.200 the pride parade. This is something that the libs do all the time when it comes to religion.

00:46:18.260 And it's totally incoherent, but what they will say is they'll say explicitly or implicitly at least, 1.00

00:46:25.440 they'll say, look, I think Christianity is dumb and stupid and wrong and backward and dated and it's 1.00

00:46:31.280 just complete nonsense. And all you people are lemmings and fools and idiots for following the 1.00

00:46:35.800 teachings of Christianity. And also my views are much more Christian than yours, right? That's, 1.00

00:46:42.060 they'll say Christianity is dumb. I don't believe in it. I don't believe in any of that stuff. You 1.00

00:46:45.960 know, man, I don't believe in God. I'm just, you know, I'm just going to do me, man. And I'm just so

00:46:49.520 much smarter than everybody. And I'm a really smart genius atheist with a fedora that I tip,

00:46:53.140 but also I'm much more Christian. You don't even understand Christianity. You know,

00:46:59.360 that's this ridiculous, ridiculous line from people who, I promise you, have not even a passing 0.99

00:47:05.460 familiarity with the religion. It's this phenomenon of, oh, this is the worst one. They'll say, 0.99

00:47:10.280 you'll hear from Libs sometimes, they'll say, listen, I went to Catholic school for 10 years.

00:47:16.260 And so I'm basically, I'm basically St. Augustine, you know, I'm basically Thomas Aquinas, all right?

00:47:23.480 Because I briefly went to a Catholic high school, so, and I'm a complete apostate and fallen away

00:47:28.720 from the faith. But let me tell you about your religion, right? And that's what they, that's

00:47:32.080 what they all do. And what is the, why do they do it? They do it because they reject religion as

00:47:39.400 an intellectual matter. But they recognize, at least subconsciously, that man is a religious being.

00:47:45.980 And so they have to make religious arguments. They recognize the strength of religion,

00:47:50.820 even in their own lives, even in how it pulls on them. And so what they do is they align their view,

00:47:58.540 that they claim that their views are the views of God. What Christians do, what religious people do,

00:48:08.280 is that they, using their moral conscience and their faculties of reason and their respect for

00:48:14.320 tradition and their reading of the scripture and their participation in the liturgy,

00:48:17.320 they ascertain what God wants. Yes, they can. And then when their behavior doesn't jive with what

00:48:24.940 God wants, they change their behavior and attempt to change their behavior and repent, which means to

00:48:29.640 change your mind and to bring their views and behaviors into line with what God wants. What the

00:48:35.760 libs do is exactly the opposite. When they realize that there's a huge gulf between what God wants,

00:48:40.840 as stated, in the scripture, in the sacred tradition, as perceived by our moral conscience

00:48:46.400 and our reason, a gulf between that and their own behavior, they try to conquer God's will.

00:48:56.220 And they say, my will is God's will. They try to make of themselves gods. They do

00:48:59.440 what the serpent tells Eve in the Garden of Eden. They say that we shall be as gods. And this is what

00:49:07.120 Whitaker Chambers said is the very heart of communism is man making themselves gods. It's

00:49:12.180 the heart of radical leftism. That is all they're going to do. Well, if you've got to live in a world

00:49:17.860 in which God is the grand marshal, in which Christ is the grand marshal, or the world in which Sonny

00:49:25.760 Hostin is the grand marshal, which are you going to pick? You got to pick one. The rest of the show

00:49:30.020 continues now. You don't want to miss this, okay? If you are not a member, click the link in the

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 22, 2022

Ep. 1131 - Ye Is Running For President

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