The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1139 - The Georgia Senate Runoff Already Looks Shady

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00:00:37.680 Today is election day in Georgia.

00:00:40.020 The race is extremely tight.

00:00:41.760 One recent poll had Republican Herschel Walker just narrowly beating Democrat Raphael Warnock.

00:00:48.160 Other polls have Warnock up slightly over Walker.

00:00:51.160 An estimated 1.85 million ballots have already been cast because Democrats changed all the voting rules in recent years to give themselves the advantage of early voting.

00:01:03.000 Experts predict over 1.9 million absentee ballots will eventually be counted by the time that final tally comes in.

00:01:09.820 And because we have become a laughingstock banana republic, the media are already reporting that we likely won't know the winner tonight.

00:01:19.420 Let's talk about election day.

00:01:21.580 Do you expect we're going to have an answer on Tuesday night, or is this going to take extra time to determine the winner?

00:01:27.660 What are you preparing for?

00:01:29.860 Listen, we're preparing for, you know, it being a very tight race.

00:01:33.560 I anticipate we may not know on Tuesday night.

00:01:36.080 It just, it really depends because it's up to the voters and they're showing up in droves.

00:01:41.820 So happy election day.

00:01:43.360 We will keep you updated whenever the Democrats find the votes that they need to win.

00:01:48.540 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:49.380 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:57.620 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:58.940 My favorite comment yesterday is from Hunter who says,

00:02:00.980 Michael said it's Iran, but then Michael said, so anyway, Iran, I know this is a problem because it is pronounced Iran.

00:02:10.560 That is how Americans ought to pronounce the name of the country.

00:02:13.520 But I've, I've just heard it so much.

00:02:15.920 I've been inundated with the Iran pronunciation from the liberal media and Barack Obama and all the like.

00:02:21.720 It's, it's the same with Pakistan. 0.99

00:02:23.620 You know, the, the libs pronounce it Pakistan.

00:02:25.680 And then they somehow convince you that that's how you're supposed to pronounce it.

00:02:29.180 They get in your mind, they control your words, they control your mind.

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00:03:44.220 Tight race in Georgia.

00:03:46.100 We'll find out who won whenever they fix the pipes.

00:03:49.200 They might have some pipes bursting because even though they thought Walker was going to get completely killed with that October surprise about his complicated and unsavory love life in the past, that didn't quite happen.

00:04:04.040 It remains neck and neck.

00:04:05.220 So the liberal media are predicting that they're just going to keep counting for days and days and days.

00:04:10.400 When you look at the presidential race for 2024, you are seeing much more interesting dynamics going on.

00:04:17.920 Right now, Donald Trump has fallen to the number three most likely guy to win the presidency in 2024 according to the betting markets.

00:04:30.420 So this is not according to public opinion polls.

00:04:32.640 This is not according to the expert pundits.

00:04:34.620 This is according to people who put their money where everyone's mouth is and who are staking real cash on who is going to win.

00:04:43.440 So according to the betting markets right now, Trump is in third place.

00:04:49.800 He's got a 20% chance of returning to the White House with four to one odds.

00:04:54.280 Joe Biden has a 22.2% chance of being reelected in two years on seven to two odds.

00:05:03.040 Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, the Vegas betting markets are giving him 30.8% seven to two odds to win the White House.

00:05:14.100 So right now, Ron DeSantis is leading the pack.

00:05:17.240 And people have to take this seriously.

00:05:19.740 I know that no one believes any polls, especially two years out from a presidential election.

00:05:25.600 But we're just seeing all the signs move in DeSantis' direction.

00:05:29.920 So yes, two years is a long time.

00:05:31.940 The race hasn't even really begun in the sense that Ron DeSantis hasn't announced that he's running for president.

00:05:36.860 There will be some brutal primary process.

00:05:38.860 But if you're just looking at the trend lines right now, Ron DeSantis is trending up in pretty much every category.

00:05:45.840 He's got the support of pundits, and he's getting more support from the pundits.

00:05:49.700 He's got support in Iowa and New Hampshire and Florida, those early primary states.

00:05:54.600 And he's getting more support in those early primary states.

00:05:57.820 And now you look at the GOP big donors who are having meetings with the candidates.

00:06:04.240 The reports are showing that Ron DeSantis is doing great with those GOP donors.

00:06:10.080 And then now you've got the Vegas betting markets.

00:06:13.220 So this is a big problem for Donald Trump.

00:06:15.160 I think part of the reason why Trump announced that he was running so early was to clear out the field.

00:06:21.380 And the common sense consensus view was that if Trump announces he's running, no one else runs.

00:06:28.600 Right now, Ron DeSantis would be crazy not to run for president.

00:06:31.700 He's got the wind at his back.

00:06:34.200 And politics is about timing.

00:06:37.040 I know a lot of people say, well, Ron DeSantis can sit this one out, let Donald Trump have his second term,

00:06:42.080 and then he can run in 2028, but that's not how politics works.

00:06:45.260 First of all, Ron DeSantis is not going to be politically relevant in 2028 because he's going to have to leave the Florida governor's mansion in 2026.

00:06:54.140 That's going to be the end of his second term.

00:06:56.220 And so then he'll be in political no man's land for two years before the 28th presidential race.

00:07:01.640 That's not going to work.

00:07:03.240 Also, he's having this moment now, and it's because of a lot of factors.

00:07:08.120 It's because of COVID.

00:07:09.340 It's because of the great job that he's done as governor in Florida.

00:07:13.300 It's because of what the other governors and senators are or are not doing in the GOP that has allowed Ron DeSantis to really rise to the top of the pack.

00:07:23.200 Ron DeSantis was an unremarkable backbencher congressman.

00:07:26.060 The guy's been in politics for a long time, and this is true of everybody in politics.

00:07:32.920 You're just kind of there until maybe you get your moment, and when you get your moment, you've got to strike.

00:07:39.240 Think about Tucker Carlson.

00:07:40.560 Tucker Carlson has been in political media forever.

00:07:43.240 Tucker Carlson's been in political media since the 90s.

00:07:45.860 I don't remember watching TV news when Tucker Carlson did not have some kind of presence,

00:07:51.940 but he wasn't considered the big power player until just a few years ago, and now all of a sudden, this is his moment in political media.

00:07:59.460 Same thing for Republican politics, and right now, if I'm Ron DeSantis, I am thinking that all the stars are aligning.

00:08:08.880 Now, as you know, I don't really get too involved.

00:08:11.700 I know that every pundit in the country seems to have picked a candidate already.

00:08:15.180 I have not done that.

00:08:16.600 I love Donald Trump.

00:08:17.980 He's my favorite president of my lifetime.

00:08:20.120 I think the guy is just fabulous.

00:08:22.160 I really admire what Ron DeSantis has done down in Florida.

00:08:24.760 I think that there are plenty of other candidates who could make good GOP 2024 candidates as well.

00:08:30.620 Whoever it is, though, we've got to win the presidency because even though the president doesn't have anywhere near the power that he used to,

00:08:36.740 and even though the administrative state runs a lot of the government, and even though the president,

00:08:42.040 especially you see this in the Biden era, is kind of just a ceremonial role sometimes,

00:08:46.100 where even a man who doesn't have two brain cells left to rub together is able to just be sort of guided around by his handlers,

00:08:52.400 and the government continues to function.

00:08:54.200 But one of the big areas where the president matters is judicial appointments.

00:08:57.760 And we are seeing a major, major court case right now before the Supreme Court that could determine the future of marriage and religious liberty in the United States.

00:09:08.060 The case is called 303 Creative versus Elenis.

00:09:13.440 This is a case about a woman named Lori Smith, who is a Christian website designer.

00:09:18.300 And so Lori Smith decides that she's going to get involved in making websites for wedding announcements. 0.98

00:09:26.180 You know where this is going.

00:09:27.640 She is based in Colorado.

00:09:30.420 You know where this is going.

00:09:31.700 It's the same state that persecutes Jack Phillips, who's the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop,

00:09:36.920 because he doesn't want to participate in so-called gay weddings.

00:09:39.760 Well, Lori Smith decides, okay, I'm going to make wedding announcement websites,

00:09:42.920 but I'm a Christian, and so I am not going to participate in a so-called gay marriage, which violates my religious beliefs. 0.97

00:09:53.960 The libs sue, the LGBT lobby sues, and now this case makes it all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:10:01.720 There was a very telling exchange between Justice Neil Gorsuch and the lawyer for Colorado, the solicitor general there.

00:10:09.840 Take a listen.

00:10:10.280 I'm looking for the distinction between the two cases.

00:10:13.500 One you say is okay, the other one not okay.

00:10:15.560 Because the company, unlike our first example of the speechwriter,

00:10:19.680 the company here says in no uncertain terms will they ever sell a company, a product or a service to a same-sex couple.

00:10:27.940 No, what they say is we will not sell to anyone, anyone,

00:10:32.780 a message that I disagree with as a matter of religious faith,

00:10:37.000 just as a speechwriter says, or the press release writer, the freelance writer says,

00:10:40.600 I will not sell to anyone a speech that offends my religious beliefs.

00:10:46.020 But here, they are defining their service by excluding someone based on their...

00:10:52.540 That's their religious belief.

00:10:54.480 You can't change their religious belief, right?

00:10:58.040 No, but...

00:10:59.040 And you protect religious beliefs under the statute, right?

00:11:02.360 That is one of the protected characteristics in theory.

00:11:05.260 And in practice.

00:11:07.480 If it wasn't in practice, we had heard about it over the past several years.

00:11:11.440 And my friend has pointed to no example where this has been applied.

00:11:16.000 To me, the most telling part of that exchange is when Justice Gorsuch says,

00:11:20.420 look, it's this woman's religious belief. 0.99

00:11:22.460 You can't change people's religious beliefs, right?

00:11:24.940 And Eric Olson, the lawyer for Colorado, says, no.

00:11:28.280 Well, well, actually, that is kind of what we're trying to do.

00:11:32.940 And you see the framing of the argument.

00:11:36.100 The Colorado lawyer defending this ridiculous LGBT law against Christians,

00:11:42.120 against Jews, against Muslims, against any reasonable understanding of marriage.

00:11:47.020 He says, this woman's... 1.00

00:11:49.540 He's got kind of an interesting voice.

00:11:50.880 This woman is... 1.00

00:11:52.560 She's denying service to people based on their sexual desires. 1.00

00:11:58.360 She's excluding a group of people and saying they can't buy her product. 0.97

00:12:01.440 And Neil Gorsuch says, no, she's not.

00:12:03.960 She's not telling any group of people that they can't buy her product.

00:12:07.620 She's just not offering a product that violates her religious beliefs.

00:12:13.780 It's not...

00:12:14.220 Jack Phillips, the Masterpiece Cake Shop owner, didn't say that gay people can't buy my cakes.

00:12:19.100 He said, I am not going to create cakes that violate my religious beliefs.

00:12:23.860 And to create a cake for a so-called gay wedding violates my religious beliefs. 0.99

00:12:28.120 So it reminds me of the debate over gay marriage, which is you had the libs saying that we want

00:12:36.260 gay people to have the same rights to marriage as everybody else.

00:12:40.620 And the conservatives and the reasonable people said, everybody has the right to marriage.

00:12:46.680 Everybody has the right to marriage.

00:12:48.980 But marriage is the union of a man and a woman for the good of the spouses and the sake of the

00:12:54.320 generation and education of children.

00:12:55.680 Everyone has the right to that.

00:12:59.520 You don't have the right to radically redefine that against what everyone ever practically has

00:13:05.800 always believed.

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00:14:31.200 This very, very important case up at the Supreme Court, 303 Creative versus Elenis, is hinging

00:14:37.920 on this issue of whether or not you can force people to violate their religious beliefs

00:14:42.520 and participate in something that they find immoral and unconscionable.

00:14:49.420 And so Justice Gorsuch brings up the case of Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cake Shop and

00:14:55.680 having to bake the cake and participate in the gay wedding. 0.56

00:14:58.160 And he says, wait a second, didn't you send that guy to a re-education camp?

00:15:02.240 Here's what the Colorado Solicitor General says.

00:15:05.660 Mr. Phillips did go through a re-education training program pursuant to Colorado law, did he not,

00:15:11.320 Mr. Olson?

00:15:12.860 He went through a process that ensured he was familiar with.

00:15:16.360 It was a re-education program, right?

00:15:18.600 It was not a re-education program.

00:15:19.980 What do you call it?

00:15:21.040 It was a process to make sure he was familiar with Colorado law.

00:15:24.320 Someone might be excused for calling that a re-education program.

00:15:27.160 I strongly disagree, Justice Gorsuch.

00:15:28.660 Thank you, Mr. Olson.

00:15:29.320 But no, it was a, it wasn't a re-education program.

00:15:35.020 It was a new instruction seminar.

00:15:39.920 Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket.

00:15:42.000 But it totally wasn't a re-education program.

00:15:45.280 And Neil Gorsuch says, yeah, okay, I think I'm going to call it.

00:15:48.560 I think I'm going to call it a re-education program.

00:15:51.300 I think I'm going to stick with that.

00:15:52.560 It reminds me of when Donald Trump was arguing about the illegals during 2016.

00:16:00.800 And someone said, you know, that term is very offensive.

00:16:04.000 He says, what's offensive about the term illegals?

00:16:06.320 He said, well, it's wrong.

00:16:08.400 You should say, what should I say?

00:16:09.500 You should say future undocumented dreaming. 1.00

00:16:13.840 And he cuts away.

00:16:14.320 He said, I think I'm going to stick with illegal, actually.

00:16:16.140 And that's what Neil Gorsuch says, which is amazing from Neil Gorsuch, because Neil Gorsuch

00:16:20.420 was the deciding vote in the Bostock case, which found preposterously that civil rights

00:16:27.720 law protects sexual orientation and gender identity.

00:16:32.620 That when you see protections for sex in the civil rights law, that also implies a protection

00:16:37.280 for gender identity, which is distinct from sex by the very nature of this gender category,

00:16:44.500 right?

00:16:44.680 The gender ideologues say, well, you can have some sex. 0.70

00:16:48.760 You can be a male as your biological sex, but you can be a female as a matter of your

00:16:52.940 gender.

00:16:53.480 So Neil Gorsuch has been far from rock-ribbed on these issues.

00:16:56.720 And even he is sitting there saying, are you kidding me, Colorado?

00:17:00.540 Are you kidding me that you're going to force people to do this?

00:17:04.460 And especially when we're talking about creating a wedding website, because there you're talking

00:17:09.620 about forcing someone to engage in speech that they find immoral.

00:17:17.620 An example of this would be, I've worked on political campaigns.

00:17:20.500 I've written political speeches before.

00:17:23.280 Now, let's say I've got Michael Knowles' speech writing LLC.

00:17:27.160 And I'm a business, and I write speeches for conservatives.

00:17:30.800 And then one day a communist walks in and says, Michael, I want you to write a speech for me.

00:17:35.520 I'm running to be the communist nominee for president.

00:17:38.620 And I say, well, sorry, Mr. Communist, but I'm a conservative.

00:17:41.920 And so I'm not going to write a speech extolling the virtues of communism.

00:17:45.940 And then I get dragged before the Supreme Court.

00:17:49.600 And they say, this man has discriminated against me.

00:17:53.060 He has refused me service.

00:17:55.800 This is a horrible example of bigotry.

00:17:59.160 And then the libs, the lib justices say, Michael, you're forced to use your speech,

00:18:04.200 use your faculties of reason to participate in this communist campaign.

00:18:09.480 That's what we're talking about here.

00:18:11.620 You are forced to use your speech and your skill and your time and your labor

00:18:16.680 to violate your conscience at a very, very deep level.

00:18:21.540 And so Neil Gorsuch is calling this out.

00:18:23.620 Unfortunately, the newest justice on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Jackson, did not call it out.

00:18:29.160 She was clearly on the side of Colorado.

00:18:31.860 What I'm asking you is I have a public business.

00:18:35.020 I'm a photographer.

00:18:36.580 My belief is that, you know, I'm doing It's a Wonderful Life scenes.

00:18:40.860 That's what I'm offering, okay?

00:18:43.120 I want to do video depictions of It's a Wonderful Life.

00:18:46.200 And knowing that movie very well, I want to be authentic.

00:18:50.720 And so only white children and families can be customers for that particular product.

00:18:58.760 Everybody else can, I'll give to everybody else.

00:19:01.040 I'll sell them anything they want, just not the It's a Wonderful Life depictions.

00:19:04.800 I'm expressing something, right, for your purposes, that speech.

00:19:10.600 What about, what's the other step?

00:19:13.220 It's speech and I can say anti-discrimination laws can't make me sell the It's a Wonderful Life package to non-white individuals. 0.75

00:19:23.280 I'd like to apologize.

00:19:27.880 Previously on this show, I have said that I thought that Ketanji Jackson is a smart woman.

00:19:35.440 And I've said this because she has two degrees from Harvard.

00:19:38.800 That should have been my first warning, actually.

00:19:40.540 And I've said this because she was a federal judge.

00:19:42.340 And I've said, you know, she's very, very confused, this woman.

00:19:44.520 But I bet she's intelligent.

00:19:45.940 I retract that statement.

00:19:50.720 Hearing that babbling nonsense masquerading as an argument, I can no longer defend the claim that I am confident that Ketanji Jackson is an intelligent woman. 0.97

00:20:05.900 I thought she was, but maybe not.

00:20:08.220 I guess my other clue should have been when she couldn't define the word woman during her Senate confirmation series. 1.00

00:20:12.980 What is this woman saying? 0.76

00:20:14.300 She's saying, well, this case where a woman doesn't want to participate in a gay wedding, quote unquote gay wedding.

00:20:22.460 I shouldn't even use the phrase because it's a contradiction in terms.

00:20:25.960 And this is how the libs control your mind is they control the words you use and they force you to accept their premises as a matter of your own speech.

00:20:33.640 But this woman is being forced to participate in an activity that she finds immoral and to do so with her own speech. 1.00

00:20:42.680 That is not the same as saying, hey, hey, gay people, you can't buy my pictures.

00:20:52.100 Hey, black people, you can't buy my pictures. 1.00

00:20:54.840 Hey, I mean, this is the silly notion that Justice Gorsuch disabused the Colorado Solicitor General of when he said, you're excluding customers based on some group characteristic.

00:21:06.920 He said, not at all.

00:21:08.380 You're just refusing to participate in an activity.

00:21:11.680 Now, if Ketanji Jackson had said, you know, you're a photographer.

00:21:16.800 You want to create realistic depictions of the movie It's a Wonderful Life.

00:21:20.760 And you recognize that George Bailey is a white guy.

00:21:23.800 So you're only going to cast white guys in these pictures to be recreations of It's a Wonderful Life. 0.69

00:21:29.880 I guess then you would be discriminating on people based on their race.

00:21:34.920 But one, that's already protected.

00:21:36.500 It's called casting.

00:21:37.400 Of course you can cast.

00:21:38.240 You know, if I go in to audition for the next Black Panther movie and they don't give me the part, I can't sue them and say, this was discrimination based on my race.

00:21:48.940 How dare they not cast me, an olive-skinned Sicilian American, as the role of whatever the guy.

00:21:55.700 I don't know what the guy's name is.

00:21:57.220 It's not my cup of tea.

00:21:58.700 Okay.

00:21:59.080 But no, of course that is already protected.

00:22:01.040 And in that case, of course, by the way, the person you would be casting is not a customer.

00:22:05.360 He's an employee.

00:22:06.260 And you're allowed to discriminate when it comes to employees, especially if their appearance matters.

00:22:11.520 And no one's arguing otherwise.

00:22:14.220 It's just the argument, either Ketanji Jackson is much, much less intelligent than I thought she was.

00:22:21.180 Or they're not even attempting to make a convincing argument.

00:22:24.140 It could be the latter.

00:22:25.080 Because this was at the heart of the gay marriage so-called debate, was the libs never had that debate.

00:22:31.880 The debate was always over, what is marriage?

00:22:35.040 And the libs never had that debate.

00:22:36.860 They just begged the question.

00:22:38.420 They assumed their own conclusion.

00:22:40.140 And they said, marriage is the union of any two people that I say it is a union of.

00:22:44.880 And so now the question becomes, who has the right to get married?

00:22:47.800 And it seems that Ketanji Jackson is doing exactly the same thing here.

00:22:52.760 Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, there are protests right now.

00:22:56.800 In 20 cities, over, not over the redefinition of marriage, not even over the transgender stuff, which is the next stage of that part of the sexual revolution. 0.82

00:23:08.680 Over Balenciaga.

00:23:12.200 You remember the Balenciaga campaign?

00:23:14.220 We've talked about it on this show.

00:23:15.700 And I keep bringing it up because I don't want this story to get memory hold.

00:23:18.560 Balenciaga, a very, very high-end luxury fashion house that has celebrity relationships with every famous person under the sun.

00:23:27.300 Certainly all the big prominent libs who go to the elite parties.

00:23:29.780 They pushed advertising campaigns that sexualized children, little kids in them, frowning, looking unhappy, holding S&M teddy bears.

00:23:41.020 And in another advertising campaign, you had the text to a Supreme Court decision about child pornography referencing another Supreme Court decision about child pornography.

00:23:51.020 And the decision that it was referencing in that very meticulously placed court case, the decision it was referencing was one which held the alleged constitutionality of simulated child pornography.

00:24:05.560 So the whole thing was super weird.

00:24:07.000 You saw satanic references, references to Baal, one of the most prominent demons ever worshipped in one of their advertising campaigns.

00:24:16.040 So the whole thing was really sick, really weird, and it involved sex stuff and kids.

00:24:21.600 And people are rightly furious about it.

00:24:26.800 So what is happening?

00:24:29.000 Well, Balenciaga is apologizing.

00:24:32.220 Balenciaga tried to do damage control right away.

00:24:36.320 And this was a little awkward for the liberals who reacted to the conservatives observing this weird sex stuff by saying, this is nothing.

00:24:45.680 This is not a big deal.

00:24:46.880 You guys are tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists.

00:24:49.020 What are you talking about?

00:24:49.880 And then Balenciaga goes, wipes their social media networks.

00:24:54.680 Instagram, all gone other than a major apology, says that they were going to seek a lawsuit against the person who put the photo shoot together.

00:25:02.340 So that really undercut the libs who were saying, this is nothing, burger, it's no big deal.

00:25:06.180 But then Balenciaga otherwise was largely silent about this until now.

00:25:11.880 Demna Gavazalia is a Georgian fashion designer.

00:25:17.420 He's currently the creative director for Balenciaga.

00:25:21.260 Super tight with Kim Kardashian.

00:25:23.400 He's collaborated with Kanye West before.

00:25:24.940 Kanye, oddly enough, during his sort of performance art presidential campaign, continues to wear Balenciaga clothing.

00:25:34.800 And I think actually defended this guy, Demna Gavazalia.

00:25:38.140 Even amid his seemingly extremely super-duper far-right campaign, he's defending Balenciaga and all these kind of weird liberal creative types who are pushing the kid sex stuff, which is very, very strange.

00:25:52.180 But regardless, that's just a little bit of a footnote, but a strange footnote on the story.

00:25:57.400 Demna says, I want to personally apologize for the wrong artistic choice of concept for the gifting campaign with the kids, and I take my responsibility.

00:26:06.620 It was inappropriate to have kids promote objects that had nothing to do with them, the 41-year-old posted.

00:26:12.840 Okay, just want to push back a little here.

00:26:17.020 They were holding teddy bears.

00:26:18.340 So, the teddy bears happened to be wrapped up in this weird S&M leather sex stuff.

00:26:27.340 But you can't say that the object they were holding had nothing to do with them.

00:26:32.100 The object they were holding was a teddy bear, which has a lot to do with little kids.

00:26:36.320 Part of what's so creepy here is not just that there were kids in the ad, but that the kids were holding a kid object that had been sexualized.

00:26:46.120 It's weird that the kids were in the ad at all, but just the fact that a little teddy bear was being so sexualized, that is also weird.

00:26:55.480 So, that's already making me think, hold on, wait, what?

00:26:58.260 You want to apologize for the artistic choice of concept, but now it doesn't seem like you're being totally honest if you're saying an S&M teddy bear has nothing to do with kids.

00:27:08.480 He says, as much as I would sometimes like to provoke a thought through my work, I would never have intention to do that with such an awful subject as child abuse that I condemn, period.

00:27:18.420 Now, this is another little weird thing.

00:27:23.080 I just noticed this now in the way the sentence is written.

00:27:27.880 He says, I would never do it with such an awful subject as child abuse that I condemn.

00:27:31.420 He doesn't say, I would never do it with child abuse, comma, which I condemn, which would say, I condemn child abuse per se.

00:27:38.420 He says, I would never engage with an awful subject as child abuse that I condemn.

00:27:43.640 The difference being that because he's not condemning child abuse as a category, there might be some kind of child abuse that he does not condemn.

00:27:52.860 It would be like saying, I'd hold up a blue M&M and I say, these are the M&Ms that I love.

00:27:57.880 I love the blue M&Ms.

00:27:59.240 The other M&Ms, the jury is out.

00:28:01.320 Or I could say, these are the M&Ms, which I love.

00:28:04.840 That would say, I love these M&Ms.

00:28:06.800 Is Demna Gavazalia thinking that deeply about the syntax here?

00:28:11.500 I'm not so sure.

00:28:12.620 But that is just kind of weird taken in the context of the whole statement.

00:28:16.340 Because then he goes on.

00:28:17.640 He says, I need to learn from this, listen, and engage with child protection organizations to know how I can contribute and help on this terrible subject.

00:28:24.920 I apologize to anyone offended by the visuals.

00:28:27.780 And Balenciaga has guaranteed that adequate measures will be taken, not only to avoid similar mistakes in the future,

00:28:33.700 but also to take accountability in protecting child welfare in every way we can.

00:28:37.460 Again here, you see kind of a fake apology.

00:28:41.380 I apologize to anyone offended by da-da-da-da-da.

00:28:44.580 That's the lamest kind of apology you can make.

00:28:50.740 When you say, hey, I'm sorry if you were offended by what I said.

00:28:53.860 No, that's not an apology.

00:28:54.940 You can't apologize for the way someone feels.

00:28:58.780 You can only apologize for your own actions.

00:29:02.680 So you can say, I apologize that I put this together.

00:29:05.920 I apologize that I did a thing that is offensive.

00:29:10.520 He didn't say that.

00:29:11.140 I apologize to anyone offended, and I guarantee we'll take steps to protect this in the future.

00:29:17.500 And then in conjunction with this announcement, Balenciaga said that it would drop its $25 million lawsuit against the marketing agency North 6, which put this together.

00:29:31.000 This, too, shows you that Balenciaga bore much more responsibility for the campaign than they wanted to admit.

00:29:37.400 Why are they dropping the lawsuit?

00:29:40.480 They're dropping the lawsuit because it wasn't just some random marketing campaign that they hired that went off on their own and did this crazy thing that Balenciaga condemns.

00:29:49.940 They're dropping the lawsuit because they know that Balenciaga was itself involved in the campaign.

00:29:54.720 They're dropping the lawsuit because Balenciaga's creative director is saying, yeah, I had an artistic vision, and that wasn't great.

00:30:00.640 But that's why they're doing it.

00:30:02.740 If Balenciaga really thought they could get $25 million from this marketing firm, North 6, they would do it.

00:30:08.640 But Balenciaga's not going to bring the lawsuit.

00:30:10.520 Why?

00:30:10.640 Because they don't want to go through discovery and because they think that they're going to lose the case.

00:30:14.360 And now Balenciaga says, we're going to donate instead to organizations focused on protecting children.

00:30:20.280 Oh, yeah.

00:30:20.640 And also, this whole apology comes two weeks after the fact.

00:30:23.600 Two weeks after the fact, because the controversy hasn't died down, because there are protests in 20 cities.

00:30:29.300 I do not accept this apology.

00:30:32.040 I do not believe this apology.

00:30:33.880 I think this is crisis communications, major damage control.

00:30:37.740 It does not seem sincere to me at all.

00:30:39.400 And it seems like there is a lot more going on behind the scenes at Balenciaga.

00:30:42.880 And I think people should keep pulling on that thread because every single day, it seems, we learn something new about what's going on behind the scenes there.

00:30:53.160 And it's really weird and creepy and freaky, and we should figure it out.

00:30:57.960 Speaking of weak apologies, the incoming Democrat minority leader in the House of Representatives

00:31:04.640 is issuing a sort of apology for being himself after two years of Democrats whining about the evil election deniers who are a threat to our democracy.

00:31:17.620 The man himself is a denier of the election of Donald Trump.

00:31:23.220 The newly elected incoming leader of House Democrats is a past election denier who basically said the 2016 election was, quote,

00:31:34.640 illegitimate and suggested that we had a, quote, fake president.

00:31:41.460 Suggesting an equivalence there with Donald Trump.

00:31:43.240 What's your response?

00:31:44.720 Well, you know, it's unfortunate that Republicans have chosen to focus on me.

00:31:49.620 House Democrats are going to focus on solving problems for the American people.

00:31:54.360 But you did say that history will never accept Donald Trump as a legitimate president,

00:31:58.580 and the Republicans are making quite a big issue out of that.

00:32:01.160 What is your response?

00:32:02.300 Well, here's the Republican playbook.

00:32:03.740 Facts don't matter.

00:32:05.540 Hypocrisy is not a constraint to their behavior.

00:32:07.760 And in many cases, they believe that shamelessness is a superpower.

00:32:11.960 My view of the situation has been pretty clear.

00:32:15.120 I supported the certification of Donald Trump's election.

00:32:19.000 I attended his inauguration, even though there were many constituents and others across the country pushing me and others to do otherwise.

00:32:28.500 Well, hold on.

00:32:30.360 Is Trump a legitimate president or not?

00:32:33.820 Because I'm not getting an answer out of Hakeem Jeffries.

00:32:37.420 He won't even answer the question now.

00:32:39.320 He said when Trump was elected, this was an illegitimate election.

00:32:44.480 He's an illegitimate president.

00:32:45.480 Then he points out, well, I voted for the certification anyway.

00:32:50.260 But then he continued to call Trump an illegitimate president.

00:32:53.040 So which is it?

00:32:53.780 If Hakeem Jeffries seriously believed that Donald Trump was illegitimately elected, then he should have voted against the certification of the vote, right?

00:33:03.540 Or if Hakeem Jeffries believed that Donald Trump was actually elected president, then he should have stopped being an election denier.

00:33:11.760 But he's trying to have it both ways.

00:33:13.400 And you can see this.

00:33:14.380 You can tell the man has no convictions whatsoever.

00:33:16.480 Because he says, listen, I attended the inauguration even though, even though what?

00:33:21.700 Even though my better judgment told me not to.

00:33:23.740 Even though I had a principled stance against it.

00:33:25.700 Even though, even though, no.

00:33:26.460 He says, even though some of my constituents didn't want me to.

00:33:28.900 Okay, so this is a guy who blows in the wind and who is, as the Democrats so often do, projecting his own vices onto his political opponents.

00:33:40.980 When he says, preposterously, in answer to the question, do you think Trump's an illegitimate president or not?

00:33:46.140 Do you regret dying that election?

00:33:47.940 He goes, the Republicans, they're hypocrites.

00:33:51.100 They don't have principles.

00:33:53.780 And he just goes on some stupid campaign platitude, you know, automation.

00:33:59.700 He just goes, beep, beep, boop.

00:34:00.840 And he just spits out all these stupid, empty talking points.

00:34:04.020 But he himself is the one who is blowing in the wind here, who doesn't have principles.

00:34:08.160 I still, after that interview, I still don't know whether he thinks that the 2016 election was legit or not.

00:34:15.200 And fine, if he thinks it wasn't legit, produce the evidence.

00:34:17.280 I can't, I don't see any.

00:34:18.660 The Democrats tried really hard to do that.

00:34:20.300 But he's just trying to have it both ways, and he's not actually apologizing.

00:34:24.640 Really, really weak stuff.

00:34:26.600 Now, speaking of rigged elections, you know that the Twitter files just came out about the ways in which the social media companies, Twitter in particular, in this case, worked with the Democrats to rig the 2020 election.

00:34:39.420 According to certain public polls, show that they may have played the decisive role by censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

00:34:46.540 So, Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House spokesman, is asked about this.

00:34:50.720 She says it's old news.

00:34:53.800 We see this as an interesting or a coincidence, if I may, that he would so haphazardly, Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction.

00:35:04.880 That is a, that is a, that is a full of old news, if you think about it.

00:35:10.220 And at the same time, Twitter is facing very real and very serious questions about the rising volume of anger, hate, and anti-Semitism on their platform.

00:35:20.900 And how they're letting it happen.

00:35:24.020 And, you know, the president said last week, more leaders need to speak out and reject this.

00:35:29.660 And it's very alarming and very dangerous.

00:35:32.400 Huh?

00:35:36.040 Yeah, I get it.

00:35:36.800 You don't like Elon Musk.

00:35:38.000 You don't, you don't like the conservatives get to speak on Twitter.

00:35:40.280 But what about the, what about the expose, which shows that the Democrats colluded with Twitter to censor the, the content that was damaging for Joe Biden?

00:35:51.180 What did she say?

00:35:51.960 She says, oh, that's old news.

00:35:53.780 This is the Clinton playbook.

00:35:55.860 This is the, going back to the early 90s, going back to the 80s.

00:35:58.840 Which, the Clintons, whenever they were confronted with a scandal, which is frequent for the Clintons, even by Democrat standards, what would they do?

00:36:06.800 They would deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny, deny.

00:36:14.500 Oh, it's old news.

00:36:17.620 They would deny it for years.

00:36:19.540 And then when it was undeniable, they would say, oh, it's old news.

00:36:22.720 No, it's not, yeah, it's old news that you've been lying about for years.

00:36:26.260 You've never actually had to confront any of this.

00:36:28.760 So you don't, you don't get to just slip away.

00:36:31.460 That's what they're trying to do.

00:36:32.880 And this is the strongest evidence that what was exposed in the Twitter files is not a nothing burger.

00:36:38.680 The fact that Democrats did their best for two years to cover it up.

00:36:42.780 And now they're trying to say, well, it's old.

00:36:44.640 If it was old news, if it's no big deal, then why didn't you deal with it at the time?

00:36:48.900 Because it is a big deal.

00:36:50.040 And there's much more to come, by the way.

00:36:52.860 I think that that Twitter, Twitter gate, Twitter files thread that the journalist Matt Taibbi posted the other day,

00:37:00.060 I think that was not the full story.

00:37:02.060 I think that was the tip of the iceberg.

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00:39:03.180 The Matt Taibbi thread was the tip of the iceberg as far as I'm concerned because we already know that the other social media networks

00:39:18.080 have been pressured by Democrats to censor their content, to give Democrats an advantage and to harm the Republicans.

00:39:24.720 One of the criticisms of the Twitter files thread is the libs are saying,

00:39:29.700 well, there's no evidence that the government forced Twitter to do any of this stuff.

00:39:34.620 It's not that the government, it was maybe the DNC or the Democrats, it wasn't the government.

00:39:39.960 Well, now we've got some evidence that the FBI actually was involved.

00:39:45.220 We know that Mark Zuckerberg said on Joe Rogan's show that the FBI called up Facebook and told them that there was this Hunter Biden laptop story

00:39:54.320 and they should be very, very skeptical of it.

00:39:56.560 And it was a big warning about allowing this story to spread.

00:40:00.780 It was basically the FBI saying, shut down this story because it's going to hurt the Democrats.

00:40:07.440 Well, it turns out on another story damaging to Democrats, the FBI got involved as well.

00:40:12.860 Do you remember the story of Tara Reid?

00:40:15.060 Tara Reid is the former Hill staffer who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her some decades ago.

00:40:23.340 Apparently, Twitter now reveals the FBI asked Twitter for this woman's personal information.

00:40:33.500 Daily Caller has this report.

00:40:35.680 The subpoena was obtained by Daily Caller and it shows the DOJ asking Twitter to testify in front of a grand jury

00:40:42.660 to provide, quote, all subscriber information for Reid's accounts.

00:40:48.080 So that includes, obviously, name, logins, where she was logging in from, time on the site, credit cards,

00:40:58.980 if she was subscribed, say, to Twitter Blue or something or any of the other subscriptions

00:41:03.040 where you would spend money on Twitter to promote ads or things like that.

00:41:07.140 Very, very personal information.

00:41:09.460 Why?

00:41:09.860 Tara Reid says she has no reason why.

00:41:11.700 She has no idea why other than because she was going after Joe Biden.

00:41:16.880 We know this is happening.

00:41:18.520 We know that the FBI has been weaponized by the Democrats against the Republicans.

00:41:23.040 That's what the Russia hoax was about. 0.87

00:41:24.600 That's what happened when the FBI illegitimately spied on Donald Trump's campaign and then undermined his presidency.

00:41:30.580 We know this is happening.

00:41:31.960 And so I suspect Elon Musk is a pretty sophisticated player.

00:41:35.780 You don't become the world's richest man by accident, okay?

00:41:39.320 And so Elon Musk does the big Twitter files release and it shows that the conservatives are not crazy.

00:41:46.280 It shows evidence of corruption.

00:41:47.640 But it's not some big, huge bombshell with stories we didn't know about.

00:41:51.100 And then the libs laugh about it.

00:41:52.560 They mock it.

00:41:53.660 Do we really think that's all that there is here?

00:41:55.720 I don't believe that for one second.

00:41:58.700 Okay, it's corruption.

00:41:59.420 It's corruption from the Biden administration.

00:42:02.480 So the Biden administration, they're not going to fix our economy.

00:42:06.140 They're not going to secure our borders.

00:42:08.220 They're not going to prevent the breakout of World War III. 0.84

00:42:12.220 They're not going to do anything that the American people really want.

00:42:15.480 But they are taking one really bold stand.

00:42:17.600 Joe Biden, he just came out.

00:42:19.980 He took a courageous stand against Hitler. 0.75

00:42:23.900 Yeah, that's right.

00:42:24.880 Against Hitler and the Holocaust. 0.88

00:42:26.200 Wow, wow, amazing.

00:42:29.900 What courage.

00:42:31.540 Those are the issues that are, the war that occurred 70 years ago that statistically 100%

00:42:37.800 of people, with maybe a few exceptions, agree on.

00:42:40.400 That's what he's going to take the stand on.

00:42:42.980 He says, I just want to make a few things clear.

00:42:46.040 The Holocaust happened. 0.96

00:42:47.680 Hitler was a demonic figure. 0.78

00:42:49.740 And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out,

00:42:52.840 rejecting anti-Semitism wherever it hides.

00:42:54.760 Silence is complicity.

00:42:55.720 This reminds me of a Norm MacDonald bit.

00:42:58.560 Norm would do a lot of Hitler jokes.

00:43:00.220 He did one famously on David Letterman's last episode of his network show.

00:43:08.320 And the jokes were always that, of course, everybody agrees on Hitler, you know, but he 0.99

00:43:13.540 would say that it's some sort of controversial stance.

00:43:15.500 He'd say, you know, the more I read about this Hitler fella, the more I don't like him. 0.99

00:43:20.760 That Hitler, you know, I don't know if you're a history buff. 0.98

00:43:23.420 I was reading about this guy, Hitler, seems like a real jerk.

00:43:27.180 Okay.

00:43:27.640 But the reason I bring it up is not because this is newsworthy at all.

00:43:31.060 This is about the most boring statement you could possibly make.

00:43:33.480 But it's interesting in one regard, which is that Joe Biden just proved my point about

00:43:40.680 Hitler. 0.57

00:43:40.980 When I was discussing the Kanye West interview heard around the world on the Alex Jones show,

00:43:47.660 some people were confused because the headline was Kanye West says, I love Hitler.

00:43:52.260 But then Kanye West also said, I love Mao.

00:43:54.500 I love Stalin.

00:43:55.480 I love all of these other terrible dictators who had a much higher body count than Adolf Hitler. 0.77

00:44:00.660 But why is it that that doesn't resonate as much for people?

00:44:07.860 That doesn't offend people as much?

00:44:09.720 If someone comes out and says, I love Mao, no one really cares.

00:44:13.740 You hear this on college campuses all the time.

00:44:16.460 Kids will wear T-shirts with Che Guevara's face on it or any other communist killer.

00:44:21.680 But if anyone ever said anything like, I like Hitler or something like that, they would be

00:44:26.880 taken away in a straitjacket.

00:44:28.140 They would be severe disciplinary measures.

00:44:31.560 So why is that?

00:44:32.260 And what I said was, the reason that there is a double standard when it comes to Hitler

00:44:37.260 and Stalin or Hitler and Mao is because Hitler in the popular consciousness is actually synonymous

00:44:44.000 with the devil.

00:44:45.700 And actually, in a way, he is more evil than the devil because a lot of people don't believe

00:44:49.960 in the devil, but everybody believes in Hitler.

00:44:52.660 And Hitler was incarnate. 0.74

00:44:53.800 The devil is pure spirit.

00:44:55.100 But Hitler was a person with flesh and blood who moved around in time and space. 0.76

00:44:59.760 And so he has taken on, in our language and in our perception, this synonymous character

00:45:09.320 with the very devil himself, which is not true of Stalin and not true of Mao.

00:45:14.660 No matter, you could say whatever, you could say that Mao and Stalin were worse.

00:45:17.600 You could say that they killed more people, but that doesn't matter.

00:45:19.860 That's not how we understand these figures in our collective consciousness.

00:45:23.920 And Joe Biden just proves that.

00:45:24.920 He says Hitler is demonic, but he wouldn't say that about any other evil leader in the

00:45:29.160 world.

00:45:29.420 And so that is why.

00:45:30.120 And that is why Kanye's statement, I said, was in keeping with the three troubles that

00:45:38.860 he's had in his public life, which is Kanye West obviously has mental disorder.

00:45:44.920 He has said and done things that are disordered going back decades now.

00:45:50.380 And Kanye West is so deeply contrarian that he always has to violate the next biggest taboo.

00:45:59.320 You see this, you actually see this going back to Kanye West's music.

00:46:02.660 When Kanye West entered the scene in hip hop, all the hip hop was this gangster rap, really

00:46:07.940 violent, tough stuff.

00:46:09.540 And then Kanye West comes in with those songs, 18 years, 18 years, good morning, do-do-do-do-do-do-do,

00:46:17.100 right?

00:46:17.260 It's all this kind of poppier, lighter stuff.

00:46:19.060 That was a violation of the culture of hip hop at the time.

00:46:25.500 It was very contrarian.

00:46:26.380 Then he goes up to Taylor Swift, who's accepting an award.

00:46:29.360 Taylor Swift, the most popular woman in the world, practically.

00:46:31.660 He goes up and takes her trophy away and says, I'm going to give it to Beyonce instead.

00:46:35.460 Huge violation of a taboo.

00:46:37.040 Then you certainly, you saw it when Kanye West said slavery was a choice.

00:46:40.120 Then you saw it even more so when he put on the MAGA hat, which at that time was akin

00:46:43.700 to saying, I support the devil or I support Hitler or something.

00:46:46.520 And then now you see it with Kanye West going out and saying, I really like Hitler or I love 0.97

00:46:51.900 Hitler, whatever he said.

00:46:52.620 But the trouble for Kanye West now, oh, and then obviously the third trouble he's got

00:46:58.180 right now is this very public collapse of his marriage, which is the sort of thing that

00:47:01.700 makes anybody go crazy.

00:47:03.120 And especially if you've got other problems, it just is very, very challenging, which is

00:47:06.600 why I said, reaction to Kanye, I'm not going to just castigate him and scold him and preen

00:47:12.200 and virtue signal.

00:47:12.880 I'm going to just say, pray for Kanye.

00:47:14.660 He's obviously having a tough time.

00:47:17.460 But right now, as Joe Biden is showing, what's the next thing for Kanye?

00:47:22.620 He has violated the ultimate taboo.

00:47:25.740 There is no further taboo to violate in our popular culture.

00:47:29.760 So what does one do?

00:47:31.000 What does one do when the shock value runs?

00:47:33.000 There is nothing left to do that is more shocking in our popular culture.

00:47:38.000 Now, speaking of Hitler, I do have to, what a segue.

00:47:40.600 I have to get to the story about time man of the year, because there's a lot of talk about

00:47:46.160 who will be the time man of the year.

00:47:47.500 The potential candidates right now that were just floated on the Today Show, Ron DeSantis,

00:47:53.720 Liz Cheney, Elon Musk, Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Zelensky in

00:48:02.380 Ukraine, the Supreme Court, Mackenzie Scott, for some reason, that's Jeff Bezos' wife or 0.96

00:48:07.740 ex-wife, the Iran protesters, and gun safety advocates.

00:48:13.560 Who is it going to be?

00:48:14.240 Liz Cheney?

00:48:16.660 Okay, give me a break.

00:48:17.960 First of all, how's Liz Cheney going to be the man of the year?

00:48:19.640 That doesn't make any sense.

00:48:21.240 Although they've renamed it.

00:48:22.260 Now it's the person of the year.

00:48:23.320 Well, since I was the 2006 time person of the year, I would like to place my bets.

00:48:29.860 Ron DeSantis should have a good shot at it.

00:48:31.460 He's had a better year than anybody in American politics.

00:48:34.620 Liz Cheney, of course not.

00:48:35.600 Elon Musk probably deserves it.

00:48:38.260 He has been a figure of chaos and very important change to America's political order.

00:48:43.580 He comes in and he says, we are going to reinstate Donald Trump's account.

00:48:49.200 One of the biggest shifts in our political order was this idea that oligarchs in Silicon 0.98

00:48:52.840 Valley were able to silence the duly elected sitting president of the United States.

00:48:57.240 It's a major shift to the way American politics works.

00:49:00.100 Elon Musk comes in and corrects that.

00:49:01.320 I think he's got a really good claim to it.

00:49:04.160 Yellen, no.

00:49:05.120 Xi Jinping, I don't think so.

00:49:07.480 The US Supreme Court, maybe because of Roe v. Wade.

00:49:09.720 Mackenzie Scott, of course not.

00:49:11.620 Iran protesters, no.

00:49:13.300 Gun safety advocates, what is that?

00:49:14.520 Who's not a gun safety advocate?

00:49:15.720 Who's a gun danger advocate?

00:49:18.160 I don't, nobody.

00:49:18.820 So no.

00:49:19.540 The one they're probably going to give it to though, Zelensky, right?

00:49:22.820 They're probably going to give it to Vladimir Zelensky.

00:49:25.320 He's lost some public favor in recent weeks because he keeps trying to

00:49:31.060 instigate the West into starting World War III. 0.67

00:49:33.700 And he also fired those missiles into Poland and blamed Russia.

00:49:36.700 And then it turned out it was Ukraine.

00:49:37.880 So that didn't work.

00:49:38.580 But if I had to bet, I would bet, I guess I would bet Zelensky. 0.75

00:49:46.400 Now we've got to talk about all sorts of manly things on the member block.

00:49:51.180 Notably, we've got to talk about sperm.

00:49:56.100 We have to talk about, I didn't really want to talk about sperm, but my friend Cabot Phillips,

00:50:00.700 you know Cabot Phillips here from the Daily Wire.

00:50:04.000 He said, Michael, I want to come on the show and talk about sperm.

00:50:07.200 There's not enough of it these days.

00:50:09.520 The men are atrophying.

00:50:11.880 It's apparently a major problem in the country.

00:50:13.740 So we will discuss sperm coming up.

00:50:16.040 The rest of the show continues now.

00:50:17.220 You don't want to miss it.

00:50:18.360 If you're not a member, click the link in the description and join us.

00:50:20.520 We'll see you next time.

The Michael Knowles Show - December 06, 2022

Ep. 1139 - The Georgia Senate Runoff Already Looks Shady

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