The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1134 - The Fashion Of Woke Pedos

00:00:00.000 Leave it to the women of The View to identify the worst part of Balenciaga's child porn referencing 1.00

00:00:08.320 little kid featuring BDSM photo spread that the luxury fashion house published last week.

00:00:16.200 According to Alyssa Griffin, who is supposedly the Republican on that show, the worst part

00:00:21.600 of the fashion line's depiction of a frowning little girl holding a teddy bear in S&M gear

00:00:28.500 featured along with a handbag ad highlighting a major Supreme Court decision on child pornography. 0.94

00:00:33.860 The worst part, of course, is that it gave those mean, nasty conservatives an opportunity to pounce. 0.81

00:00:42.060 What's going on here? 0.83

00:00:43.200 I found this ad campaign particularly distasteful in this moment.

00:00:46.720 So there's this, there's growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment right now.

00:00:51.060 And how it's being framed is as portraying trans people as groomers.

00:00:56.440 This is a term you'll hear on the far right.

00:00:58.140 They're groomers.

00:00:59.220 This is where you get the anti-drag queen stuff that we're seeing.

00:01:02.540 So Balenciaga played right into their hands by having kids in a sexualized manner carrying 1.00

00:01:07.540 something that represents, you know, sex acts.

00:01:09.680 I think it was a really bad misstep at a moment where it's just kind of a dangerous time to

00:01:14.880 even give credence to those kind of insane takes.

00:01:17.480 Yeah, I mean, we can't even show the picture because it's so distasteful. 1.00

00:01:20.760 Damn you, Balenciaga. 0.99

00:01:22.300 Balenciaga, your portrayal of, quote, kids in a sexualized manner carrying something that 1.00

00:01:29.020 you know represents sex acts, her words, not mine, is playing directly into the far right's 0.99

00:01:35.620 hands.

00:01:36.260 What a misstep.

00:01:38.380 Now we're going to have to hear more of those insane right wing takes that just so happen 0.99

00:01:44.460 to accurately describe what powerful people are doing before our very eyes.

00:01:49.260 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:50.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:58.680 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:00.240 My favorite comment yesterday is from Redneck Beard who says, whoa, man, don't knock the

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00:02:10.120 No, I don't, Redneck Beard, because not only is Christmas not a month-long event that occurs

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00:02:28.840 just one day.

00:02:30.080 It's just amazing how, it's not your fault, Redneck Beard. 0.97

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00:02:53.300 Christmas is a season.

00:02:55.440 Christmas is 12 days.

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00:04:35.440 That reaction from The View, it tickled me so much.

00:04:42.380 The problem with the Balenciaga kiddie porn campaign is just how the Republicans will react.

00:04:48.700 Oh, you gave those Republicans an opportunity.

00:04:51.400 It reminded me of this Norm MacDonald joke.

00:04:54.960 I actually think that The View, which is perfect, because Norm had this sort of long and troubled

00:04:59.840 history with The View, with the show.

00:05:02.440 And they were enacting this Norm MacDonald joke, where Norm, one time, he was describing 0.89

00:05:09.000 the real problem if terrorists were able to get a dirty bomb and kill millions of people.

00:05:15.660 I can't say my friend's name, but he said his biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist 0.89

00:05:28.560 group like that would get a hold of a dirty bomb and explode it over a major city within

00:05:36.220 the United States and kill tens of millions of people, because then the blowback against 1.00

00:05:47.980 innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible. 1.00

00:05:53.680 Yes, that's true. 1.00

00:05:54.660 That's true.

00:05:55.940 All right, let's do some jokes.

00:05:57.140 Norm's guest there, she doesn't quite seem to, she doesn't agree.

00:06:05.760 She goes, yes, yeah, no, that would be, yeah, you know, like if these terrorists killed tens

00:06:12.340 of millions of people, you know, that the worst part would be the blowback, the Islamophobia, 0.97

00:06:18.400 the worst part of the child porn campaign from the high-end luxury fashion house is, of course, 0.92

00:06:25.780 the blowback that we see from those Republicans, right? 0.99

00:06:28.640 No, I think the worst part, call me crazy, I think the worst part of the weird child porn 0.98

00:06:34.680 campaign from Balenciaga is the weird child porn stuff, you know? 0.76

00:06:39.780 And I don't think I'm even using that word hyperbolically.

00:06:42.640 Okay, it's, the children are clothed, at least, that's good, but they're there frowning,

00:06:47.560 holding the weird S&M teddy bear, and then in the associated, it was a separate ad campaign,

00:06:52.420 but it was still being featured by Balenciaga at the same time, you see a reference to a

00:06:57.200 Supreme Court case about child pornography.

00:06:59.220 The odds of this happening, coincidentally, are zero, or zero, okay?

00:07:04.660 I think that's the worst part.

00:07:06.660 I think the Republican reaction, pretty good, actually.

00:07:10.100 I'm really glad there's a Republican reaction to call attention to this sick, sick stuff.

00:07:16.140 You know it's not a nothing burger.

00:07:18.200 The libs are going to try to say, oh, no, it's nothing.

00:07:20.960 Oh, come on, you conspiracy theorists, you're overreacting.

00:07:23.880 I don't think so.

00:07:25.020 Look at the reaction, to the reaction from Balenciaga.

00:07:28.940 Balenciaga just wiped their Instagram page, okay?

00:07:32.620 If this were just nothing, don't you think Balenciaga would just sort of move on?

00:07:36.740 Oh, no big deal.

00:07:37.620 They wiped their Instagram page.

00:07:39.120 They've issued a major apology.

00:07:43.260 That's not the only thing that's featured on their Instagram page.

00:07:45.600 And here's what they say.

00:07:47.100 The first campaign, the gift collection campaign,

00:07:50.040 featured children with plush bear bags dressed in what some have labeled BDSM-inspired outfits.

00:07:55.740 Just put a pause there.

00:07:57.140 It's not what some have labeled BDSM outfits. 1.00

00:07:59.880 It's BDSM outfits.

00:08:01.280 I don't know how else you would describe it.

00:08:04.000 Would you say they're dressed up like cowboys?

00:08:05.980 No.

00:08:06.380 Are they dressed up like bikers? 0.99

00:08:08.820 No.

00:08:10.020 They're wearing like weird leather chain stuff.

00:08:12.220 But it's clearly a weird sex thing.

00:08:14.920 Our plush bear bags and the gift collection should not have been featured with children.

00:08:19.280 This was a wrong choice by Balenciaga.

00:08:21.560 Combined with our failure in assessing and validating images, the responsibility for this lies with Balenciaga alone.

00:08:26.960 Okay, so they are saying, they're trying to weasel out of it a little in the beginning.

00:08:31.420 Some have called it a BDSM thing. 1.00

00:08:33.100 But then they're saying, look, this was horrible.

00:08:34.620 This was terrible.

00:08:35.380 This shouldn't have featured kids.

00:08:36.380 We shouldn't have let this go through.

00:08:37.360 We're sorry.

00:08:38.000 It's our fault.

00:08:38.520 We're sorry.

00:08:38.860 We're sorry.

00:08:39.160 We're sorry.

00:08:40.820 So I don't want to hear, oh, you conservatives are blowing this out of proportion. 0.99

00:08:44.200 Balenciaga admits this is a weird, creepy, pornographic, child-featuring, S&M-having, weird sex thing. 0.98

00:08:53.520 But then they go on. 0.52

00:08:54.360 They say, the second separate campaign for spring 2023, that's the one with the child porn case being featured,

00:09:00.760 which was meant to replicate a business office environment,

00:09:03.100 included a photo with a page in the background from a Supreme Court ruling, United States v. Williams, 2008,

00:09:08.320 which confirms as illegal and not protected by freedom of speech the promotion of child pornography.

00:09:14.200 All the items included in this shooting were provided by third parties that confirmed in writing that these props were fake office documents.

00:09:19.540 They turned out to be real legal papers, most likely coming from the filming of a television drama.

00:09:24.840 The inclusion of these unapproved documents was the result of reckless negligence for which Balenciaga has filed a complaint.

00:09:31.440 We take full responsibility, accountability for our lack of oversight, and control of the documents in the background,

00:09:37.120 and we could have done things differently.

00:09:38.540 Okay.

00:09:40.700 I don't buy it.

00:09:42.400 I don't buy it.

00:09:43.220 I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt.

00:09:45.420 I strive to cultivate a spirit of charity and always seeing the bright side of things.

00:09:50.420 Sorry.

00:09:51.400 I don't think so.

00:09:52.900 Once, it's a fluke.

00:09:55.460 Twice, it's a coincidence.

00:09:57.560 Three things, four things, five things.

00:09:59.480 I don't know.

00:10:00.280 It just seems a little bit weird.

00:10:01.980 And we are seeing lots and lots of evidence that Balenciaga and the people around Balenciaga have a weird fascination with weird sex stuff and kids.

00:10:15.560 Okay.

00:10:16.880 I'm just noticing that.

00:10:18.040 I'm just seeing that.

00:10:20.080 And we've got a lot of evidence to back it up.

00:10:22.160 You're telling, oh, oops, actually, yeah, just as we're getting all this heat for a weird pornographic child featuring campaign, oh, just, oops, coincidentally, the set decorator used these documents.

00:10:36.700 It's probably from a television drama.

00:10:39.860 Probably.

00:10:40.580 We're not going to give you any evidence of that.

00:10:42.200 But, you know, let's just say it's that.

00:10:43.440 And it just coincidentally, the exact part that's featured there specifically refers to a child porn case.

00:10:51.940 And, yes, it's from, notice they say, it's from U.S. versus Williams, which was a case that said that the peddling of child porn is not protected speech.

00:10:59.700 But in the line of that document that was featured specifically in the photograph, it referred to a different Supreme Court decision.

00:11:07.840 It was the Free Speech Coalition case, which actually found that simulated child pornography is protected speech, which is a ridiculous ruling from the Supreme Court.

00:11:18.100 But the ruling that was referenced there was a pro-child porn case.

00:11:24.540 Balenciaga's argument is, oh, this was all just accidental.

00:11:27.340 Let me tell you something.

00:11:28.700 Most people have never spent time around a film set or a photo shoot set.

00:11:33.380 Nothing is accidental on a film set, on a photo shoot set.

00:11:37.440 Especially when we're talking about a very prestigious, very high-end fashion brand.

00:11:42.080 It's not like you walk up there with a, you know, a digital camera and say, okay, click, click, click, okay, we got our shots.

00:11:47.920 Everything is meticulously set.

00:11:51.360 And when you start pulling on this thread, it gets really, really weird.

00:11:56.480 Because one of the big stylists for Balenciaga, a woman named Lada Volkova, 0.98

00:12:01.980 got a lot of press yesterday, not from the corrupt establishment media,

00:12:07.460 but just from citizen journalists, just from regular old people who were looking into,

00:12:12.240 just poking a little bit into the Balenciaga story.

00:12:14.800 And the stuff they found, well, I'll let you judge for yourself.

00:12:18.320 I don't see any way to read this woman's work as anything less than an obsession with sexualizing little kids 1.00

00:12:30.860 in the most perverse, egregious, nauseating sort of way. 0.89

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00:14:03.980 So, Lada Volkova is a stylist, a very prominent stylist.

00:14:09.560 Worked with Balenciaga for a long time.

00:14:11.380 Worked alongside Balenciaga's creative director, Demna Kvazalia, until 2017.

00:14:16.900 And people started looking into some of her other work yesterday.

00:14:21.720 So, Balenciaga tries to get ahead of this story.

00:14:23.480 They say, Lada Volkova has not worked with Balenciaga or its team since 2017.

00:14:27.460 She has in no way participated in the brand's recent Instagram or advertising campaigns.

00:14:31.080 That's what Balenciaga spokesman told Newsweek.

00:14:32.920 Okay, but this woman did work with Balenciaga for a long time. 0.99

00:14:36.160 She clearly has had a lot of influence on the company.

00:14:38.400 So, Jake Shield, who's a former UFC fighter, just starts looking into her Instagram page.

00:14:43.520 We've blurred out the faces.

00:14:45.060 Obviously, these faces were not blurred out on her Instagram.

00:14:48.520 One of the first ones that pops up is this little girl in a kind of really done-up sort of hairdo

00:14:54.360 lying on the ground, lying on her side in a sort of skimpy little leotard

00:14:59.980 and kind of smiling in a very creepy way, but with a handout that sort of says,

00:15:05.360 no, another one is a child in high heels, topless, in a very strange sort of position.

00:15:12.380 Obviously, a kind of sexualized way. 0.92

00:15:14.540 You can see that from the stiletto heels, but not quite showing the face.

00:15:19.320 Another one is a child's bedroom just covered in gore and blood everywhere.

00:15:23.420 Another one is a little teddy bear tied up in a sort of dungeon or jail cell or something like that.

00:15:28.900 There's more.

00:15:29.520 It wasn't just these four photos.

00:15:32.440 Let's see.

00:15:32.800 Yeah.

00:15:33.000 So, then there's another one of people tied up in like kind of weird plastic trash bags,

00:15:37.640 all tied up in a weird, it looks very, like some kind of torture scene.

00:15:43.020 Another one of a little kid holding up a skull.

00:15:45.760 Another one of a little kid being duct taped and tied to a chair,

00:15:50.800 being made to watch something.

00:15:52.240 We're not exactly sure what the kid's being made to watch.

00:15:53.820 Another one of someone with entrails pouring out of the midsection.

00:15:59.960 And there's more images.

00:16:02.660 So, then there's an image on this Instagram of just a satanic scene of a pentagram with a devil,

00:16:09.860 demon looking person up there and then a kind of sacrifice on another pentagram.

00:16:13.660 So, now we're talking about overt, overt satanic imagery.

00:16:19.060 And then we're seeing lots and lots of teddy bears throughout this person's campaign.

00:16:23.080 This is Lada Volkova.

00:16:25.380 This woman clearly has a fascination with teddy bears.

00:16:27.600 Now, why does she have a fascination with teddy bears? 1.00

00:16:29.280 Well, maybe it's just totally innocent because teddy bears are really cute and fun and plushy.

00:16:32.900 Everyone had a teddy bear as a kid.

00:16:34.400 Fewer people have teddy bears as adults.

00:16:35.920 But it's her kind of lying around with teddy bears, walking around with teddy bears.

00:16:39.440 And then there's one of a teddy bear doing a sexual act that's really, really weird.

00:16:44.360 So, all of this.

00:16:45.880 I'm not sitting here telling you that this woman is some kind of witch, you know, controlling the Balenciaga campaign. 0.98

00:16:56.640 Not telling you she's not. 0.99

00:16:57.840 I mean, there's overt satanic imagery here and weird child sex stuff. 0.72

00:17:02.020 But then something that's really, really weird.

00:17:03.820 I'm not the first person to discover this.

00:17:05.520 Someone called my attention to it and I looked it up, tried it myself.

00:17:09.840 I don't know how to explain this.

00:17:11.340 I'm not making any allegation.

00:17:12.800 I'm just observing this, okay?

00:17:14.280 I'm just noticing.

00:17:16.800 You type into Google Translate Latin to English.

00:17:20.560 So, Latin, the universal language, right?

00:17:24.780 It's supposed to be the main language of the world.

00:17:27.220 It's the language that, when I attend mass, that's the language that it's in.

00:17:31.320 But it's the language that was the universal language until very, very recently.

00:17:35.900 You type in ba from Latin into English, you get nothing.

00:17:41.020 It just says ba, ba, because ba is not a Latin word.

00:17:44.860 Then you type in a second word, len.

00:17:46.700 Ba len.

00:17:47.600 What's the English rendering?

00:17:48.980 Ba len, because len is not a Latin word either.

00:17:52.080 Ba len si.

00:17:53.820 Ba len si.

00:17:54.800 Again, you just get ba len si, because there's no Latin translation of that, because those

00:17:59.760 are not Latin words.

00:18:00.940 But here's where it gets really weird.

00:18:03.120 You type in ba len si aga.

00:18:08.360 And then the English translation is do what you want.

00:18:14.740 I'm not making any accusation.

00:18:16.600 I'm not even speculating.

00:18:17.800 I just don't.

00:18:18.940 Do what you want.

00:18:19.620 The thing that's really weird about that is do what you want is the commandment of the

00:18:24.740 Satanists.

00:18:25.440 This was the commandment of Alistair Crowley.

00:18:28.180 Do what thou wilt is the entirety of the law.

00:18:30.200 That's what he says.

00:18:31.320 That is the satanic commandment.

00:18:33.740 Going back to the Garden of Eden, do what you want, Eve.

00:18:35.540 Come on.

00:18:35.820 You shall be as gods.

00:18:36.620 Do what you want.

00:18:37.380 Now, when you look on Google Translate, it says, would you like to translate this from

00:18:43.600 Hausa, which is some African language.

00:18:45.300 But it's not translating it from Hausa.

00:18:47.360 That's not what it means in Hausa.

00:18:48.640 When you click the translator from Hausa, it gives you a different translation.

00:18:50.840 I have no way of making any sense of this other than to observe that there's something weird

00:19:03.500 about Balenciaga.

00:19:04.860 And we know it's not just a coincidence.

00:19:06.680 And we know it's not just the Republican reaction, the pouncing.

00:19:12.420 Because Balenciaga is taking this very seriously.

00:19:14.760 Balenciaga is wiping their Instagram page, apologizing immediately for the campaign,

00:19:20.020 and taking legal action against the people who are creating the campaign.

00:19:23.480 And then you look into it, and it's just all this overtly satanic imagery.

00:19:31.880 You can't write off this stuff as a crazy conspiracy theory.

00:19:36.800 You certainly can't in a world post-Jeffrey Epstein, okay?

00:19:41.060 Because post-Jeffrey Epstein, we know that there actually is an elite cabal of pedophiles 0.98

00:19:47.440 who have a whole island who would go to the island and do weird sex stuff with kids. 0.99

00:19:52.040 That you can't just say, well, you crazy tinfoil hack conspiracy theorists. 0.98

00:19:55.160 We know that happened.

00:19:56.560 There are court documents about it.

00:19:59.120 And yet we still don't really know who the clients are.

00:20:01.040 We still don't have the little black book.

00:20:02.440 No one's really been held accountable for it.

00:20:04.620 Jeffrey Epstein got Jeffrey Epstein.

00:20:08.860 Ghislaine Maxwell is getting some sort of sweetheart deal. 1.00

00:20:12.300 But what about the clients?

00:20:15.500 And why does it always seem to come down to weird satanic stuff?

00:20:21.980 You notice this?

00:20:23.160 Now, you might say, well, this designer woman for Balenciaga, 0.89

00:20:27.580 she's just ironically worshiping the devil and putting up all this imagery.

00:20:33.840 The fact that Google Translate, I assume someone just went in and kind of tinkered with it

00:20:38.200 as a kind of weird joke.

00:20:39.260 I don't know how else to make sense of that translation.

00:20:44.580 And to make it the satanic commandment.

00:20:46.660 Maybe it's just a kind of a weird ironic joke.

00:20:49.700 But the thing is you can't worship the devil ironically.

00:20:53.400 You can't do anything ironically for too long.

00:20:56.100 If you behave in an ironic way for your whole life, then it's just sincere.

00:21:01.060 Then it's just earnest.

00:21:01.760 That's just what you have done.

00:21:02.800 And when you worship Satan ironically, when you just sort of do what you want,

00:21:08.920 as a lot of the Satanists say, we don't really believe in the devil.

00:21:11.020 We just do what we want.

00:21:13.180 Right.

00:21:13.720 That is worshiping the devil.

00:21:16.480 That is it.

00:21:17.160 It's that line from, I think it was Baudelaire, who says,

00:21:19.400 the finest trick of the devil is to convince you that he does not exist.

00:21:24.700 But he does.

00:21:25.300 Now, speaking of fashion lines and the devil, Canada right now,

00:21:29.700 there's a Canadian clothing company, Simons,

00:21:31.640 which is running an ad campaign marketing its products with suicide.

00:21:37.820 Last breaths are sacred.

00:21:41.520 When I imagine my final days, I see bubbles.

00:21:46.780 I see the ocean.

00:21:49.060 I see music.

00:21:50.240 Even now, as I seek help to end my life, there is still so much beauty.

00:21:58.460 You just have to be brave enough to see it.

00:22:04.660 Certainly the most perverse ad I've ever seen since Balenciaga.

00:22:08.360 But it's up there.

00:22:09.480 It's the same thing.

00:22:10.820 In Canada now, they're saying, hey, as you plan to end your life, 0.62

00:22:15.560 as you get ready to kill yourself, buy these clothes.

00:22:17.760 Clothes can still be beautiful. 0.99

00:22:19.640 There's still beauty out there, but you're going to kill yourself. 0.98

00:22:21.860 But before you kill yourself, give us your money. 0.97

00:22:24.680 Buy our clothes.

00:22:27.440 It's really, now, why are they doing this?

00:22:29.320 Because Canada right now is passing assisted suicide legislation.

00:22:34.840 Canada is making it legal.

00:22:36.000 This is following a Canadian Supreme Court decision

00:22:37.800 that discovered some right to kill yourself 0.77

00:22:40.300 and to have doctors help you kill yourself. 0.70

00:22:43.120 Now, you are seeing this expand.

00:22:44.740 And the expansion of what they call medically assisted something and suicide.

00:22:54.800 I don't know.

00:22:55.040 They call it made.

00:22:57.120 They're expanding this not just to people who have two weeks to live

00:23:00.940 because of some grave illness at the age of 87,

00:23:05.120 which is always how assisted suicide is sold.

00:23:07.680 Oh, it's just for people who are on death's door and they're in intense pain.

00:23:10.660 And we're going to pretend that we don't have any pain medication.

00:23:13.240 And we're going to pretend that we know exactly when people will die, even though we don't.

00:23:16.480 So it's just a way to be compassionate and merciful.

00:23:19.880 But that's not what's happening.

00:23:22.000 In Canada now, they are expanding, as always happens with assisted suicide.

00:23:26.480 They're expanding that to the mentally ill. 1.00

00:23:28.940 They're just going to kill the mentally ill. 1.00

00:23:30.940 No different than people have been doing for many years, 0.99

00:23:34.380 going back not just to the Nazis,

00:23:35.820 but all the way back to ancient Greece, 0.82

00:23:37.520 when really callous cultures would look at the weakest members and just kill them.

00:23:41.040 Or people suffering from PTSD.

00:23:42.640 You've got a veteran who comes back, who serves his country,

00:23:45.020 and he comes back and he's got some problems. 0.99

00:23:46.840 Instead of giving that guy help, we're just going to kill him. 0.99

00:23:48.980 Even children, even children with certain defects in Canada 1.00

00:23:53.200 are just going to be killed off because of this law.

00:23:57.300 And what it gets to is not just the absolute perversity.

00:24:01.600 Obviously, it's evil and perverse and we can castigate it all day long.

00:24:04.840 But what it gets to is a complete misunderstanding of what a good death is.

00:24:13.440 The way she talks about it in the ad, she says,

00:24:15.080 as I prepare, as I get ready to breathe,

00:24:17.700 we're going to have a good death with dignity.

00:24:19.120 It's going to be a good death.

00:24:20.100 It's a complete inversion of what our culture has considered to be a good death

00:24:23.740 for the entire history and the entire height of our civilization.

00:24:30.120 If we can look past the horror of assisted suicide for a second,

00:24:34.180 the fact that these Canadians, these really nice,

00:24:36.580 oh, you know, these nice Canadians up there in America's top hat 1.00

00:24:39.060 are going to start killing the mentally ill and children with problems 0.99

00:24:41.800 and veterans with PTSD and grandma who feels that she's not wanted anymore 1.00

00:24:46.600 and they're just going to kill all these people. 0.60

00:24:48.720 If we can look past the horror and the outrage for a second 0.86

00:24:52.160 and just look, where is this coming from?

00:24:54.320 What it's coming from is an inversion of our traditional concept of a good death.

00:24:58.420 It has been traditional to pray for a good death in our culture.

00:25:03.580 And by a good death, what people have meant in our Christian civilization 0.89

00:25:08.540 is a death that you are aware of.

00:25:10.680 You know that death is coming, not suicide.

00:25:13.380 That's always prohibited.

00:25:14.600 That's an expression of despair, which is a grave mortal sin.

00:25:18.780 But of a good death, you know, you feel the end is coming

00:25:21.980 and you can get your soul in order.

00:25:24.640 That's why that was considered to be a good death.

00:25:26.540 So you could get right with God, go have confession, die in a state of grace

00:25:30.540 and go enjoy your Lord and Savior forever.

00:25:33.440 The purpose of life, to know God and to enjoy Him,

00:25:35.940 to serve Him on earth and to enjoy Him forever in heaven.

00:25:40.720 That concept of a good death has now been inverted.

00:25:43.360 If you asked people, what's a good death?

00:25:45.040 How do you hope to die?

00:25:45.960 You know what they'll tell you?

00:25:47.040 And I'm tempted to say this too, sometimes when I forget about eternal things.

00:25:51.040 Oh, I want it to be fast.

00:25:52.600 Oh, I don't want to know it's coming.

00:25:54.020 I just want someone to turn the lights off.

00:25:55.500 Death, that's what people pray for.

00:25:58.720 Quick, painless, unexpected, that's the best death of all.

00:26:03.240 Because no thought is given to one's soul because people mock the idea of the soul,

00:26:07.080 because people mock the idea of heaven, because people now believe in our culture

00:26:10.040 that when you die, you just take a dirt nap and turn to warm food.

00:26:13.620 So the inversion of the idea of a good death derives from where?

00:26:17.520 Well, it derives from the inversion of the idea of a good life.

00:26:20.420 Traditionally, a good life was understood to mean a virtuous life.

00:26:26.080 This is how people understood it, even in the pre-Christian times.

00:26:29.860 Even before pagan cultures had much of an understanding of the Bible and of the Hebrew

00:26:39.560 conception of God.

00:26:41.680 You at least would have people say, a good life is when one practices the virtues,

00:26:46.920 lives in a manner that is in accordance with the virtues and excellence and heroism,

00:26:51.220 and then you die. 0.87

00:26:53.440 Right?

00:26:53.840 Then you have the Christian view and the pre-Christian view prefigured by the Israelites in the Old 0.93

00:27:02.400 Testament, which is we serve God.

00:27:05.340 Our purpose in life is to serve God, and this involves loving God above all things and loving

00:27:12.300 your neighbor as yourself, and sacrificing, and having charity and love for your fellow man.

00:27:17.360 And no greater love has a man than to die for his friends, and all of those sorts of things.

00:27:22.480 Self-sacrifice.

00:27:23.860 Today, our view of a good life is exactly the opposite.

00:27:28.460 Not only of the Christian view, not only of the Old Testament view, of the virtuous pagan view.

00:27:34.600 Today, our version of the good life is, you know, you just have pleasure.

00:27:37.720 You do whatever you want.

00:27:38.820 It's actually, to quote the Google Translate rendering of Balenciaga from Latin, allegedly,

00:27:45.720 is do whatever you want.

00:27:46.920 Do what thou wilt shall be the entirety of the law.

00:27:49.920 You're not happy in your marriage?

00:27:51.300 Well, leave your spouse. 0.99

00:27:52.500 Life is short.

00:27:53.540 YOLO.

00:27:53.980 Carpe diem.

00:27:55.800 Oh, you've got to be happy.

00:27:57.360 Just be, it'll be so much happier.

00:27:59.320 You don't like your job?

00:28:00.140 Just quit it.

00:28:01.700 You don't like your family?

00:28:02.680 Just ditch them.

00:28:04.120 Come on, just do whatever you want.

00:28:05.440 Don't have kids. 1.00

00:28:06.280 Oh, kids are such an asshole. 1.00

00:28:08.120 Get a dog. 1.00

00:28:09.020 You'll get some companionship, but you can always give a dog away if you don't like the

00:28:11.720 dog.

00:28:12.420 Don't have any firm attachments.

00:28:14.060 Don't involve yourself in any sort of obligation.

00:28:16.640 Certainly don't serve your country.

00:28:17.920 Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.

00:28:21.940 That's the modern conception of a good life.

00:28:25.180 And it's tempting because we think that if we satisfy our most immediate and base pleasures

00:28:29.980 that we will be happy.

00:28:31.040 But anyone who has ever done that knows it doesn't make you happy.

00:28:35.400 And it doesn't make you free.

00:28:36.640 It just makes you a slave.

00:28:38.100 Either you can be a slave to God, a slave to virtue, or you can be a slave to sin and

00:28:45.260 to your basest passions.

00:28:47.560 But you're going to be a slave.

00:28:50.260 If all you do, let's say you really like booze, and so all you do is you just drink all 0.91

00:28:54.100 day long, you're going to be a slave. 0.68

00:28:56.300 You're going to be very unhappy. 0.80

00:28:57.340 If you just feed your lusts, you're going to be very unhappy.

00:28:59.480 If you feed your gluttony, you're going to be very unhappy.

00:29:02.360 If you feed any of these base desires, you're going to be very unhappy.

00:29:06.740 You think it's going to make you happy.

00:29:08.340 And it might momentarily, at least for some period of time.

00:29:11.900 Eventually, it doesn't even make you happy momentarily.

00:29:13.880 But ultimately, it will not.

00:29:16.680 We lose our conception of a good life.

00:29:18.160 We lose our conception of a good death.

00:29:19.460 We lose our conception of everything.

00:29:21.120 Is it any wonder that the culture falls to pot?

00:29:24.860 Now, speaking of changing conceptions of fundamental things, there is a vote up in the Senate.

00:29:33.400 The vote is for the, quote unquote, Respect for Marriage Act.

00:29:36.740 This is really the Abolish Marriage Act. 0.95

00:29:38.800 This is really the Destroy the Meaning of Marriage and Bankrupt Christians and Jews and Muslims Act. 1.00

00:29:45.920 The act would not only enshrine Obergefell, the decision of the Supreme Court that radically redefined marriage, into law.

00:29:55.560 But it would make it illegal for people in much of American public life to hold the real view of marriage.

00:30:05.140 It would basically ban the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, sensible, normal view that everybody held until five minutes ago. 0.96

00:30:12.720 With certain carve-outs, but not too many.

00:30:14.700 So, we've got, there was a vote that happened a little while ago.

00:30:21.000 Twelve Republican senators squished on it.

00:30:23.000 It's very, very frustrating.

00:30:24.980 Then there was a vote that happened last night to advance it.

00:30:27.800 So, now there's a final hurdle today on Tuesday.

00:30:31.660 I urge you, call your senators, tell them to vote against this thing.

00:30:35.240 Tell them to vote to include certain amendments that will at least make this a little bit better,

00:30:38.820 since they probably can't stop the whole bill.

00:30:40.340 But it is worth pointing out here.

00:30:41.680 I think largely the reason those Republicans squished is because they think, this is a lost issue.

00:30:48.220 This is a lost cause, man.

00:30:49.380 Move past the marriage issue.

00:30:51.380 No one cares anymore.

00:30:52.980 We're going to lose our voters if we come out against it.

00:30:55.480 That's not true.

00:30:57.040 There's a poll that just came out of 2,000 likely voters.

00:31:01.580 This is conducted by On Message Incorporated for the Heritage Foundation.

00:31:05.480 Found that voters in Wyoming, Indiana, Iowa, Utah, and West Virginia oppose the same-sex marriage bill.

00:31:13.560 Not only oppose it without the amendments, they oppose the whole thing.

00:31:17.180 47% oppose, 41% support.

00:31:20.800 And then among Republicans, which is largely the constituents of these squishes, 70% oppose the bill.

00:31:27.060 Well, conservatives, 73%, strongly oppose the bill.

00:31:32.720 And then here's crucial.

00:31:34.380 More than half of the respondents, 53%, said that they oppose the bill when they are told about the part of the bill that would allow for lawsuits against anyone who refuses to participate in same-sex marriages.

00:31:46.560 That number rises to 69% among Republicans.

00:31:48.540 So people oppose the bill generally, and then when they find out what's in the bill, the real meat of the bill, the majority opposes it.

00:31:59.540 Not even like there's some people undecided, so it's 47, 41.

00:32:02.520 No, no, no.

00:32:02.860 The majority oppose the bill.

00:32:05.820 Do not do it.

00:32:06.920 One way to stop this, or to at least make it a little bit better.

00:32:10.960 There are three amendments put up.

00:32:13.180 Mike Lee, James Langford, Marco Rubio.

00:32:15.980 These will be held on Tuesday afternoon.

00:32:18.820 Final vote expected to take place immediately following.

00:32:22.120 We need Lee's amendment.

00:32:23.740 Okay, we need Mike Lee's amendment.

00:32:25.360 I'm glad the guy got reelected to the Senate.

00:32:27.200 He's already doing great stuff.

00:32:29.020 Call your senator.

00:32:31.280 This is a fight that a lot of conservatives say, oh, who cares?

00:32:34.340 Oh, what matters?

00:32:34.900 It's just a minor thing.

00:32:35.680 Guys, the slippery slope from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both campaigning on how marriage is the sacred union between a man and a woman.

00:32:46.820 The slippery slope from that to, then a few years later, they kind of changed their views to the normalization of Balenciaga, S&M, kiddie porn photo shoots.

00:32:57.640 It was really fast.

00:32:59.000 Okay, the slippery slope goes really fast. 0.93

00:33:00.380 The slippery slope from, hey, let's change our understanding of the relations between men and women and our views of sexuality to drag queen story hour and we're going to cut off little kids' genitals and put them on puberty blockers was really, really fast. 0.81

00:33:13.180 Okay, this matters.

00:33:15.520 It is a political winner, actually.

00:33:17.960 The people are on our side.

00:33:20.560 Conservatives grow a spine along with some other anatomical features, please.

00:33:26.320 The word of the year is gaslighting.

00:33:31.780 The word of the year.

00:33:32.900 Not just according to me and our observations.

00:33:36.540 According to Merriam-Webster, the word of the year is gaslighting.

00:33:39.980 What is gaslighting?

00:33:40.840 According to Merriam-Webster, it is, quote, psychological manipulation of a person, usually over an extended period of time,

00:33:47.760 that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perceptions of reality, or memories, and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence, and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.

00:34:05.600 Why is this the word of the year?

00:34:07.420 Well, Merriam-Webster reported that the word was looked up 1,740% more this year, and there was a ton of interest over the course of the year.

00:34:17.760 Now, this is largely what motivates support for Donald Trump and for Trump-like candidates and the Trump acolytes throughout.

00:34:31.580 It's the policies.

00:34:33.440 It's the opposition to the GOP establishment.

00:34:35.320 But it's that people have the sense that not only are we being abused, not only are bad actors, in some cases really bad actors,

00:34:47.100 and some people, in some cases, like people who worship the devil and go to spirit cooking dinners, kind of bad people,

00:34:53.760 not only are they running the show, and not only are they lying to us, but they're telling us we're crazy, and they're actually driving us insane.

00:35:00.820 Oh, no, what are you, we're not outsourcing your jobs.

00:35:03.280 No, no, no, we're not flooding your country with foreign nationals.

00:35:05.740 No, no, no, we're not doing that, and it's good that we are.

00:35:07.560 And no, no, no, we're not, what are you talking about? 0.96

00:35:09.080 Don't believe your lying eyes.

00:35:11.400 No, the things that you're seeing happening, that's not happening.

00:35:13.720 There's no creepy petto island.

00:35:15.160 No, no, there's none of that's happening.

00:35:17.280 Nothing to see here.

00:35:18.160 Move along.

00:35:19.540 Move along.

00:35:21.560 It is gaslighting, and it's only going in one direction.

00:35:25.380 If the price of your Thanksgiving meal has left a bad taste in your mouth, remember, it is completely normal to keep paying more and more and more for the same things, right?

00:35:32.160 Wrong.

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00:36:05.360 Speaking of Donald Trump, when people talk about the potential Trump campaign, his niece, Mary Trump, who's some big lib who's made a name for herself, just trading on her uncle's name.

00:36:17.240 Mary Trump has a threat and a promise for Republicans if they ditch Donald Trump. 1.00

00:36:23.020 Whether he runs, pretends to run, or doesn't run, he will do anything to take down any Republican who dares go against him.

00:36:31.860 And as he made clear a week ago, he's willing to dig up dirt on his opponents, including Ron DeSantis.

00:36:40.100 We don't know just what kinds of information he has on other people in his party.

00:36:44.880 What we do know is that he would be willing to use it.

00:36:48.300 And I believe we talked about this before the 2020 election.

00:36:52.560 Donald will burn everything down if he feels like he's going down.

00:36:59.240 We can't discount that.

00:37:00.700 So this is, I think, probably the most astute political commentary we have ever heard from Mary Trump.

00:37:07.440 The only thing even resembling astute political commentary from Mary Trump.

00:37:12.500 But I think she's right about this.

00:37:15.140 And some people are going to view that as a terrible danger, especially the more establishment type of Republicans.

00:37:20.640 And some people, such as myself, and I suspect many of you out there, are going to view this as one of the best things about Trump.

00:37:31.420 Because Trump is the honey badger, and he just doesn't care, and he's just going to do it.

00:37:40.380 He's just going to go for it.

00:37:41.800 He's not a Republican.

00:37:43.260 He wasn't raised in the conservative movement.

00:37:45.500 He's not.

00:37:46.120 He's just going to do what he wants.

00:37:48.740 He's going to engage in a hostile takeover of the Republican Party that hates him, the party leaders who hate him.

00:37:55.300 And this is probably the best selling point for the man.

00:38:01.180 If you are, like me, one of these people who say, you know, this political establishment is not really working for me.

00:38:09.100 And it's not working for a lot of Americans.

00:38:11.000 Because no matter which party wins, we get more of the same unpopular policies.

00:38:16.440 Just off the top of my head, the transgender stuff, the weird sex stuff, is extremely, extremely unpopular. 1.00

00:38:22.740 And yet, both parties push it.

00:38:25.960 But look, the Republicans are about to vote.

00:38:28.080 They already did vote to radically redefine marriage.

00:38:30.520 Both parties push it.

00:38:31.800 You see the quote-unquote Republican on The View who's saying it's really terrible.

00:38:35.640 All this anti-trans rhetoric, it's really terrible.

00:38:38.620 Why would they call these groomers groomers? 0.95

00:38:40.320 It's horrible.

00:38:41.180 Right?

00:38:41.520 So the Republicans, they cave on that.

00:38:43.960 Immigration.

00:38:44.360 Immigration is very unpopular.

00:38:47.220 If you look at public opinion polls, most Americans want to drastically reduce all immigration, not just illegal, but legal too.

00:38:53.980 Both parties push for much, much more immigration.

00:38:56.460 These bad trade deals, very unpopular.

00:38:58.300 Both parties push for it.

00:38:59.780 Our American foreign policy for the last, I don't know, 30 years, deeply unpopular.

00:39:04.000 Both parties push for it.

00:39:05.220 So if you look, and on so many other issues too, the surveillance state, all the rest of it.

00:39:11.020 If you look at both parties and you say, neither of them are doing anything to fix this, then the bull in the china shop looks very attractive to you.

00:39:20.840 And when the lib warns and says, well, if he doesn't get the nomination, if you Republicans keep playing footsie with Trump, he might burn the whole thing down.

00:39:30.340 The reaction of many conservatives is going to be, don't threaten me with a good time.

00:39:37.120 Oh no, he's going to burn it all down.

00:39:39.040 Oh no.

00:39:40.400 Don't threaten me with a good time, darling.

00:39:43.760 It's the gaslighting.

00:39:44.900 It drives us crazy.

00:39:45.600 Though, a lot of this corrosion and corruption, it might be exposed, at least some of it.

00:39:55.500 Elon Musk is promising to not only get to the bottom of the free speech suppression on Twitter, the protection of Hunter Biden, the protection of Joe Biden, the shadow banning of conservatives, the outright open banning of even the duly elected sitting president of the United States.

00:40:14.520 He says, all of it, he's promising to make it public.

00:40:18.340 He says, the Twitter files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself.

00:40:23.740 The public deserves to know what really happened.

00:40:27.320 In some ways, the publishing of that information, the exposure of what the libs have done to rig not just one little social media app, but don't forget, we're talking about the public square.

00:40:39.080 We're talking about a self-government republic.

00:40:40.340 Therefore, we're talking about the whole political order, elections, the time before elections, all of it.

00:40:48.520 The exposure of that kind of corruption is in many ways more valuable than even Musk reinstating some banned accounts.

00:41:00.260 It is just, it will be so valuable to have proof that we're not crazy.

00:41:09.360 That those of us who have been told for years and years, oh, well, you think you're being shadow banned?

00:41:15.060 Oh, please, you know what? 0.99

00:41:16.380 You think you don't have rights to, please, you're just crazy. 0.65

00:41:19.720 And we were told that by the same people who said, well, you don't want to take the experimental vaccine for COVID? 1.00

00:41:26.060 You're crazy.

00:41:27.560 Oh, it's totally safe and totally effective. 1.00

00:41:30.520 You're just, you don't, hold on.

00:41:33.580 You don't, you don't think that the Wuhan virus came from nature?

00:41:36.520 You think it might have had something to do with the Wuhan Institute of Virology? 0.99

00:41:38.900 You're crazy. 0.99

00:41:39.800 Hold on. 0.97

00:41:40.240 You think that the 2020 election might have had some problems with it? 0.99

00:41:43.100 Why, oh my gosh, you're just crazy. 0.98

00:41:45.160 Hold on. 0.99

00:41:45.620 You think that there's a creepy elite pedophile cabal that meets on this island in the Caribbean and involves some of the most prominent people in the world? 1.00

00:41:52.880 You're crazy, you're crazy, you're crazy. 1.00

00:41:55.620 We're not crazy. 1.00

00:41:57.220 We're not crazy.

00:41:58.120 We've got eyes, we've got ears.

00:41:59.560 We're seeing these things happen in real time.

00:42:01.660 And so if Elon Musk can go in and definitively say, this is what the system was doing to rig it against conservatives, that will be extremely valuable.

00:42:13.240 And as far as I'm concerned, having not needed to spend $44 billion to buy Twitter, I think it was worth every penny of Elon Musk's money.

00:42:20.660 Speaking of buying things and spending a lot of money, there is a shocking figure that comes out of an underreported aspect of the culture war.

00:42:31.320 We always talk about the sex stuff and abortion and immigration even.

00:42:34.340 And U.S. homebuyers now need to make six figures a year to afford the median home in the United States.

00:42:46.260 So the numbers have just come out, according to analysis by Redfin, which is one of the main real estate brokerages.

00:42:54.140 Housing prices remain fairly elevated.

00:42:57.840 Typical home prices have surged more than 45% since the same time last year.

00:43:02.700 So the mortgage payment rates are about $2,682 right now, which means the annual salary required to afford such a property has increased from $73,668 a year to $107,281 a year.

00:43:20.140 That's a lot of money.

00:43:22.680 That's a lot of money.

00:43:23.720 Before blank book success, before I had my great professional success publishing a stack of blank pages,

00:43:31.860 I wasn't making that kind of money.

00:43:35.180 A lot of people don't make that kind of money.

00:43:37.600 Most people don't make that kind of money.

00:43:39.940 Now, you might say, well, it's just because of inflation.

00:43:42.140 So therefore, you know, wages are going to rise too.

00:43:44.280 Wages aren't rising.

00:43:46.380 Average hourly wages have nominally increased 5% over that period.

00:43:51.620 So the income that you need to afford a home went from $74,000 to $107,000, but your wages only increased 5%.

00:44:01.820 So what that means effectively is you won't be able to afford a home.

00:44:05.960 And when you can't afford a home, that means that you're not going to have that degree of independence.

00:44:10.420 You're not going to have that degree of property.

00:44:12.040 We talked yesterday on the show about how money talks and BS walks.

00:44:15.040 And it is very important if you want to maintain political power to have some cash, okay, have some assets.

00:44:21.720 Because that really speaks a lot in politics.

00:44:24.600 But the ruling class does not want you to have assets.

00:44:30.720 They want you to own nothing and be happy.

00:44:33.920 This is the World Economic Forum vision of the future.

00:44:36.640 This is the Great Reset vision of the future.

00:44:39.140 Again, I know we all sound like crazy conspiracy theorists, but in the world of Creepy Petto Island and the weird Balenciaga ad campaign and the establishment being wrong about basically everything for the past two years at least, I don't think that's so far-fetched.

00:44:54.600 I'm just quoting the words of the World Economic Forum back to them.

00:44:58.300 You will own nothing and you will be happy.

00:45:01.400 You will rent everything.

00:45:04.020 You will eat bugs.

00:45:06.120 You will live in a little pod.

00:45:09.140 You will do everything virtually.

00:45:11.680 You will just zoom.

00:45:13.220 Just go into the metaverse.

00:45:15.140 Just put on the headset.

00:45:18.160 Even our romantic relationships now are virtual.

00:45:21.180 It's either people texting on the dating apps or looking at porn.

00:45:25.060 Marriage decreasing.

00:45:27.120 Marriage rates decreasing.

00:45:28.560 Now Democrats redefining and destroying marriage and Republicans going along for the ride. 0.93

00:45:32.140 It's just hard not to notice these things because, to quote Andrew Klavan quoting Ernest Hemingway, things happen gradually and then suddenly.

00:45:42.160 I think we're sort of in the suddenly phase.

00:45:44.120 A lot of these things are coming together right now.

00:45:46.700 And it's not just even our cultural hobby horses, you know, opposition to drag queens or whatever.

00:45:56.060 We're talking about real cold hard cash here, okay?

00:45:58.500 People are being squeezed.

00:46:00.480 Especially the American middle class is being squeezed.

00:46:04.560 And what that translates to is a restructuring of our political order.

00:46:09.460 What that translates to is a great reset.

00:46:12.100 One of the most frustrating parts of this reset, to me, beyond, you know, losing our whole country and way of life.

00:46:20.900 But part of that, too, is that for the first time in my life, lots and lots of people in this country seem to care about soccer.

00:46:32.180 I was scandalized by this over the weekend.

00:46:35.980 We will be talking about it with Jake Crane.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 29, 2022

Ep. 1134 - The Fashion Of Woke Pedos

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