The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1166 - Greta Vs Klaus Schwab

00:00:00.000 Sparks flew yesterday at the World Economic Forum as the environmentalist globalists

00:00:05.320 started attacking the globalist environmentalists after Greta Thunberg arrived in Davos.

00:00:14.060 We are right now in Davos, where the, basically the people who are mostly fueling the destruction

00:00:21.660 of the planet, the people who are at the very core of the climate crisis, the people who are

00:00:27.300 investing in fossil fuels, et cetera, et cetera. And yet somehow these are the people that we seem to

00:00:34.000 rely on solving our problems, where they have proven time and time again that they are not

00:00:38.740 prioritizing that. They are prioritizing self greed, corporate greed, and short-term economic profits

00:00:46.280 above people and above planets. And we seem to be listening to them rather than the people who are

00:00:53.960 actually affected by the climate crisis, the people who are living on the front lines. And

00:00:59.140 and that's, that kind of tells us the situation, how absurd this is.

00:01:05.660 The whole episode resembled the Iran-Iraq war in that normal people wish that both sides could lose.

00:01:12.740 But even more than that, the fight resembled a stage play. The liberal elites wunderkind showing up to

00:01:19.880 the fancy party in Switzerland to tell them all how very naughty they've been, all to the fawning

00:01:26.020 praise and applause of the elites who lapped up the performative abuse. A tawdry affair and a play-acted

00:01:33.720 fight for the cameras, while behind closed doors, the globalist agenda moved forward, full steam ahead.

00:01:41.680 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:49.880 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Big G, who says,

00:01:54.640 if John Kerry couldn't get his friends off a remote island back when he was Thirst and Howell III,

00:02:00.380 how is he supposed to save the world? That's so true. John, if you're going to save the world,

00:02:04.960 how about you get off that island, huh? Lovey, you can't even keep your marriage in check, John.

00:02:11.760 Lovey, bring me another coconut, please. I'm saving the planet, lovey.

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00:03:20.720 Talk is simply smarter wireless. Amid all of the silly little play for the cameras things that happened

00:03:29.740 at the World Economic Forum, like the Greta Thunberg performances and all the rest of it,

00:03:34.580 there was some scary stuff that went down. The European Commission Vice President made a claim

00:03:42.220 that should put a little bit of fear in every single American. This European Commission VP said

00:03:48.820 that the United States soon will follow Western Europe in banning hate speech.

00:03:54.360 We need the people who understand the language and the case law in the country,

00:03:58.680 because what qualifies as hate speech, as illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the US,

00:04:07.320 I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law. We need the platforms

00:04:16.500 to simply work with the language and to identify such cases. The AI would be too dangerous.

00:04:23.240 Yes, you will soon have it there in the United States, because we will make sure that you have

00:04:29.840 it there, because we are going to take this rabbit narrow opportunity to reset the world.

00:04:35.160 That was the subtext of what she was saying. Most conservatives are listening to that and saying,

00:04:40.020 no, you won't, Dagnabbit. We're going to stand firm on our First Amendment. You're never going to make 0.82

00:04:44.020 us give up free speech. She's right. She's right. Some version of hate speech laws are coming to the

00:04:51.940 United States. In fact, they're already here. We already have versions of hate speech laws.

00:04:58.020 If you commit a crime, if you rob a guy and you take his wallet and you say, hey, pal,

00:05:06.380 I'm going to take your wallet. You take it and you go away. Then you'll be charged with robbery.

00:05:10.420 If you go up to that same guy and you say, hey, N-word, hey, F-A-G-G-O-T, hey, whatever,

00:05:19.040 insert, whatever slur you want, I'm going to take your wallet. You will be charged with robbery and

00:05:23.600 a hate crime. And the only differentiating factor, the only thing that would distinguish the two

00:05:29.000 robberies would be your speech. Speech is increasingly criminalized according to the

00:05:35.240 standards of the ruling liberal elite, what they consider to be offensive. Furthermore,

00:05:39.840 as I wrote in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, do I not have a bell in my

00:05:43.020 hotel room? Want my bell? According to my book, as I explained pretty clearly there,

00:05:49.960 there have always been laws about speech in the United States. We still theoretically ban obscenity.

00:05:55.440 We've had blasphemy laws on the books. This is true in every single society. So when the Davos

00:05:59.200 elites say, you're going to get some form of hate speech laws, we can either put our heads in the

00:06:03.540 sand and pretend that that's not true and say, la, la, la, la, la, I've got the First Amendment,

00:06:07.020 which is going to protect me for saying anything that I want to say, which is not true now and has

00:06:12.060 never been true, or we can actually engage with the issue and say, okay, yeah, we're going to have

00:06:16.120 standards and norms of speech. It can either be the insane backward Davos liberal standards,

00:06:22.200 or we can assert our own standards. But we bury our heads in the sand at our own risk because these

00:06:28.460 people, even though they're trying to downplay their power right now, they have a lot of power

00:06:32.600 and they've got a lot of power specifically in the United States. So the effective conservatives are

00:06:37.880 the ones who are pushing back specifically on their agenda. Where are we seeing this most clearly?

00:06:43.020 We're seeing it down in Florida. We're seeing it with Governor Ron DeSantis, who has just announced

00:06:48.640 that Florida will join a number of other Republican states in divesting from asset managers that push

00:06:55.840 an ESG agenda, environmental, social, and governance policies, which basically just means radical wokeism.

00:07:01.820 DeSantis said that the approval of this resolution will ensure that public fiduciaries, quote,

00:07:09.780 invest state funds in a manner that prioritizes the highest return on investment for Florida's

00:07:14.420 taxpayers and retirees without considering the ideological agenda of the ESG movement. So what

00:07:22.080 DeSantis is saying here is we're not going to buy into the World Economic Forum view of capitalism,

00:07:29.420 which they call stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism says it's not just shareholders,

00:07:35.980 but every group in society is going to have some say in how businesses are run and businesses are

00:07:39.940 going to be accountable, not just to the shareholders, but to the locals and to the consumers and to the

00:07:46.580 suppliers. And how exactly is this going to work? Everything's a little, little vague when it gets

00:07:50.960 to the specifics, but they say shareholder capitalism is not the way of the future. Shareholder

00:07:57.660 capitalism is the system that we have right now. It says that the only duty of a company is to

00:08:02.260 maximize profits for shareholders. And it has led to a lot of material prosperity in the last 50 years,

00:08:07.700 but it's only really been about 50 years since shareholder capitalism became the dominant form

00:08:12.780 of conducting business in the United States. The defenders of shareholder capitalism, the people

00:08:18.380 you hear as the free market absolutists, the disciples of Milton Friedman, they are going to try to

00:08:23.680 tell you that shareholder capitalism is some ancient sacred idea. It's not. It has been useful in many,

00:08:30.280 many ways, but it isn't all that old. The critics of stakeholder capitalism, the woke stuff that the

00:08:39.000 World Economic Forum is pushing, they're going to try to tell you that this is brand new, but it's not

00:08:42.580 brand new actually. Stakeholder capitalism, the idea that companies ought to be responsible to more

00:08:47.320 than just the shareholders of those companies, that's an idea that goes back at least to 1932.

00:08:51.320 It probably goes back a little earlier than that, though now we're just using these terms

00:08:57.840 to discuss more complex ideas because the economy is a complex thing and political philosophy is a

00:09:02.820 complex thing. So what are we going to do? To stop stakeholder capitalism, the left-wing version of

00:09:09.640 it, this is a fine way to do it. It's a fine way practically to say, we're going to divest from

00:09:15.060 BlackRock. We're going to divest from State Street. We're going to divest from Vanguard. And how are we

00:09:19.000 going to do it? We're going to repeat the same things that Milton Friedman told us in the 70s

00:09:22.100 and the 80s. That's fine in the short term. But in the long term, we are going to have to deal

00:09:26.700 with some of the real criticism, some of the legitimate criticisms of the economic policies

00:09:32.020 of the last 50 years. Because the knock on those policies is legit. The knock is that it exacerbates

00:09:37.580 economic inequality and it breaks down social solidarity. And you as a conservative might not

00:09:43.540 care all that much about economic inequality. It doesn't bother me in principle, but it does

00:09:48.240 actually bother me in practice. Because when economic inequality becomes too drastic, people

00:09:54.120 start getting a little antsy and they start getting a little violent and society can break down. And

00:09:58.160 this can cause or at least be associated with a breakdown in social solidarity. But the breakdown in

00:10:05.680 social solidarity comes from a lot of other features of the economy too. An economic policy,

00:10:11.220 for instance, which we've had for the last 50 years, that tells women that they should get a 0.98

00:10:15.240 job. They should leave the home. They should delay having children. They should kill their babies if 1.00

00:10:20.480 they do get pregnant. They should have multiple partners and not settle down and not raise a family 1.00

00:10:26.360 at an early age. That kind of capitalism, and you're hearing that message as much from the right-wing

00:10:31.680 capitalists as you are, from the left-wing feminists and radicals and free love type people,

00:10:36.940 that is going to cause a breakdown in society. And that's a problem. So I don't want to sound like a

00:10:41.340 pinko over here, okay? I don't mean to sound like I'm going to go dye my hair purple and start marching

00:10:45.880 with Greta Thunberg or anything like that. But I think conservatives need to be completely

00:10:51.240 unsentimental. And we need to give credit where credit is due when it comes to diagnoses of these

00:10:56.740 problems. The libs, I mean, going back to Karl Marx, the libs are not bad at criticizing certain

00:11:02.540 aspects of society. They don't have good solutions for what to do about it, but that's what we need

00:11:06.700 to do. And so the long-term solution here is going to be, okay, if there are issues with the economic

00:11:13.720 policies from the 1970s, let's address them. And let's not just dig up the graves of Milton Friedman

00:11:18.460 and Ronald Reagan. They fought their battles. They did good for their time, I think. They did just

00:11:24.020 fine. Now we have to fight our battles too. And if the libs are going to be the only people 1.00

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00:13:08.500 do apply. Speaking of institutionalized wokeness, there's some basketball player. You know me,

00:13:17.200 I don't follow sports very closely. Baseball is the only one that I really follow much at all.

00:13:22.320 But there's this basketball player. His name is Provorov. And Provorov has a religious objection

00:13:29.820 to putting on the gay pride flag on his jersey. And he was told by his team that he had to wear

00:13:36.520 a gay pride flag jersey. And he said, no, I'm Christian. That actually contradicts my faith.

00:13:40.760 So no thanks. I'm not going to wear, I'm not going to wear the jersey. And they said,

00:13:44.240 you have to wear the jersey. They said, I want to wear the jersey. And it was like that scene in

00:13:47.500 Seinfeld. When during AIDS, everyone wanted you to wear a little ribbon on your clothing. And Kramer

00:13:53.100 said, I don't want to wear the ribbon. He said, wear the ribbon. Why aren't you wearing the ribbon?

00:13:56.380 And it has reached such a fever pitch that some Looney Tune anchor just went on an unhinged rant

00:14:03.460 about this man not wanting to wear a gay symbol on his body.

00:14:08.340 The theme is not hockey is for everyone, dot, dot, dot, unless you don't believe in gay rights, 0.95

00:14:15.300 then do whatever you want. If the National Hockey League is going to do this, if any league is going

00:14:20.960 to do this, do it properly or reevaluate what you're doing. Because there's not a lot of

00:14:28.100 repercussions that I'm seeing from any league. Now, it could change with the NHL. Could change with

00:14:33.640 the NHL. I think you find the Flyers a million dollars for this. I'm not kidding. Figure this out.

00:14:37.900 And stop offending people on nights where it's not about that. It's supposed to be about

00:14:41.220 inclusivity. The National Hockey League need to attack this and figure this out. Because what

00:14:48.920 I heard last night was offensive and didn't make any sense. Because, for instance, if that was a

00:14:55.180 military night, okay, if anyone in Canada or in the States on a military appreciation night

00:15:00.820 wouldn't wear a jersey pregame, do you have any idea the uproar that would have happened on that?

00:15:05.960 Do you have any idea the backlash? Do you have any idea what happened on social media?

00:15:10.240 It's ridiculous.

00:15:12.240 Do you have any idea? I'm laughing for a couple of reasons. One is I just proved my thesis that I

00:15:19.900 don't know anything about sports because I thought it was a basketball player, but it's a hockey player.

00:15:24.280 Okay. All right. Actually, I prefer hockey to basketball. There's more fights. It's a little bit

00:15:28.840 more exciting. Manly sport, isn't it? And in this manly sport, this Christian guy says, 0.51

00:15:33.760 I don't want to wear the gay thing. Please don't make me wear the gay thing. And then this Looney 0.96

00:15:38.120 Tune on the NHL channel, he says, could you imagine if a player didn't want to wear a jersey

00:15:44.140 honoring military veterans? As if to say that a man who goes out there and fights for his country,

00:15:53.780 risks his life to go kill the bad guys and protect our freedom and our traditions,

00:15:57.580 that that is the same thing as a guy who really,

00:16:01.940 really, really likes doing weird sex stuff.

00:16:06.000 Both of those things are equally deserving of our admiration.

00:16:09.540 Well, Colonel, I really appreciate the sacrifice you made being wounded overseas

00:16:15.300 to protect my country. And you, Julio, I'm glad that you went to the bathhouse yesterday.

00:16:20.620 I find both of those things so terribly honorable.

00:16:23.440 Give me both of your jerseys. I'm going to, uh, no, no. One of those things is admirable.

00:16:30.160 One of those things is at best kind of weird and a matter that we don't need to talk about

00:16:37.000 all that much publicly at the best. That's the best case scenario. Okay. How can you imagine the

00:16:42.120 guy? He seems genuinely confused and he goes on. Nothing scares me more than any human being who

00:16:47.740 says, I'm not doing this because of my religious beliefs. Because when you looked at people's lives,

00:16:51.840 you normally say that publicly, you'd throw up at what you saw. You would throw up at what you saw.

00:16:58.220 And I have seen that a million times in a lot of different ways. So don't, don't give me that

00:17:02.380 with respect. Don't give me that because no one's perfect. All right. Don't tell me, don't,

00:17:07.460 don't feed me the religious beliefs line. And all of a sudden the NHL is going to back off this.

00:17:11.560 The National Hockey League today needs to find that organization a million dollars and reevaluate

00:17:17.520 how they support gay rights. Cause, cause that is insulting. That is the number one trending topic

00:17:22.300 in Canada. That is insulting what happened in Philadelphia. Remember when the argument was,

00:17:27.320 Hey, what's it matter to you? Hey man, what's your hangup? Why do you care what people do in

00:17:34.300 their bedrooms? It doesn't affect your life. But if you don't wear the gay t-shirt, we're going to 1.00

00:17:39.060 fine you a million dollars, but it doesn't affect you. Hey, come on. How does, how does my gay

00:17:44.540 marriage affect your real marriage? It doesn't affect, but give me a million dollars. If you ever

00:17:50.260 so much as, as even cast a slight glance of aspersion on the glorious, wonderful thing we call

00:18:00.740 homosexuals, sexual behavior. How dare you? That would be like insulting a military veteran.

00:18:06.100 You see how that, and do you remember at the time when the libs said all that, the conservatives

00:18:11.260 said, no man, it's actually a slippery slope and we're not all just free floating atoms. So

00:18:15.120 things that affect anyone and certainly groups of people end up affecting all of society. They say,

00:18:21.000 shut up bigot, shut up with your stupid religion and wear the t-shirt of my religion. Get your

00:18:27.380 religion out of public. Wear my religion. Wear my flag. Wear my symbols, except my moral order,

00:18:33.100 my immoral order. Frankly, it was what the left is pushing. And what he used, one of the shallowest

00:18:38.880 arguments you'll ever hear. He said, I'm sick and tired of people invoking their religion,

00:18:44.040 especially these Christians. That's what he was insinuating. He didn't call, he's calling out a 0.99

00:18:47.720 Christian in particular. He said, these religious people generally, do you know these, some of these

00:18:51.880 Christians, they could sin. Did you know that they commit sins? Yeah. So you better not have any 1.00

00:18:57.440 standard of right and wrong, good and bad. You better not try to do good and avoid evil because

00:19:04.740 you're a fallen creature and you sin. So therefore, you're a hypocrite. Having a standard and falling

00:19:13.060 short of that standard is not hypocrisy. We use the word hypocrisy today in a way that is very, very silly.

00:19:20.040 Secondly, having a standard and falling short of that standard, as you sincerely try to uphold that

00:19:26.420 standard, is called being human and pursuing virtue. And it is central to the Christian life. It is the

00:19:32.580 premise of Christianity, that mankind has fallen. We can't save ourselves. We are in need of a savior. We

00:19:39.300 require God's grace if we are to have salvation. That's it. And this man, this obvious religious

00:19:45.280 bigot, is demonstrating his ignorance and his intolerance and all the things that he accuses

00:19:52.820 us of. So maybe the next time that there is a cultural issue that comes up and those crazy

00:19:59.400 right-wing, probably religious fanatical types try to draw a line in the sand and say, hey, this is not

00:20:07.000 good. This is going to affect society. Maybe don't throw the nonsense back at them and say, oh, how does

00:20:12.700 this affect you? Politics affects all of us. That's why it's politics. That's what politics means.

00:20:20.240 Politics means public. Speaking of LGBT-ism, I just read the most disturbing story maybe that I have ever

00:20:31.340 read. Most disturbing news story. I'm not going to read it. I'm not going to go too into detail at all because

00:20:37.080 this is just horrifying. It's by Mia Cathall on Town Hall. I hope I'm not mispronouncing Mia's last

00:20:44.080 name. Headline tapes, we investigated a suburban LGBT pedophile ring. Here's what we found. 0.76

00:20:51.460 And it's a story of these two guys, these two gay guys who are in a gay marriage, and they adopted

00:20:57.420 children, two male children. They adopted the children from a nominally Christian adoption agency.

00:21:04.300 Obviously, a Christian adoption agency that endorses same-sex marriage adoption. It would be hard

00:21:12.380 for me to understand how that's a Christian adoption agency, but they do it. And then the guys just

00:21:18.700 constantly raped the children, just very young children. Now that the guys have been caught,

00:21:25.380 the children are ages 9 and 11. They bragged about raping the children. They made all sorts of videos

00:21:31.500 and things. They invited their friends to do it. If you want to read the grisly details,

00:21:36.600 it's over at Town Hall. You can give it a read. Not for the faint of heart, so I don't necessarily

00:21:40.740 recommend you do it. Obviously, these men, if they are guilty of what they are accused of doing,

00:21:48.420 obviously they should be executed. There's no question about that as far as I'm concerned. Even

00:21:52.060 if you are a little worried about the death penalty, and even if you have objections to the death penalty,

00:21:58.680 which I do not, I think the death penalty is perfectly just and legitimate and Christian 0.99

00:22:02.820 and acceptable, but even if you do, one, I think, irrefutable argument for the death penalty beyond

00:22:13.220 mere retribution, which I think is ultimately the point of all criminal justice, but beyond that,

00:22:18.540 you would have to say that for the purposes of protecting the public from the further predations

00:22:25.020 of these animals, these absolute criminals, the death penalty would be justified, at the very

00:22:31.080 least to protect people, if not purely for the purpose of justice and retribution, at least to

00:22:35.940 protect people. And you know, with the way that our justice system works now, if these pedos go to

00:22:39.800 prison, well, if there were justice in the prison system, they would not last very long in prison.

00:22:44.760 But if they did make it, you know they'd be let out. You know they'd be let out. We don't keep

00:22:49.580 criminals in jail in this country. Not these days. They probably would be let out. And what would they

00:22:55.040 do? They'd do it again. So sure, I think most reasonable people agree these two men should

00:23:02.460 be executed very swiftly for what they did. But when will we address the broader issues?

00:23:09.540 Are we going to address the broader issue? Are we willing to end the absurd and barbaric practice

00:23:14.780 of same-sex and single-parent adoption? And certainly when it comes to single-parent adoption,

00:23:21.320 certainly single-male parent adoption. I think single-parent adoption generally should be

00:23:27.680 discouraged, if not just made illegal outright. Certainly same-sex adoption should be illegal. 0.99

00:23:33.840 A child has a right to his natural mother and father to be conceived within the context of a

00:23:40.080 marriage and in the conjugal act of his parents. We know that there are something like 36 couples

00:23:47.160 trying to adopt every newborn baby put up for adoption in the United States. There's no shortage

00:23:51.160 of mommies and daddies married to one another who want to adopt babies. Okay, there's no shortage of 0.81

00:23:57.480 that at all. And yet because of wokeness and political correctness, we've got to say, no, well,

00:24:02.120 we shouldn't discriminate against gay men or single parents who want to adopt. But of course we should, 0.94

00:24:07.420 because it's not about the adults, whether they want to satisfy the most horrific lusts they could

00:24:12.900 have or whether they just want a kid and they didn't get married and they just want to have a

00:24:17.060 kid. We know that it is better for a child to be raised in a marriage, in a real marriage with a 0.89

00:24:23.540 mother and a father. And so at the very least for newborn babies, where the situation is really,

00:24:29.100 really straightforward, we should prioritize the children over the parents. No question about that.

00:24:34.880 We're not allowed to say that. That's not politically correct. We're not allowed to

00:24:37.420 point out that child sex abuse is much more prevalent among LGBT identified people. I'm not

00:24:44.500 saying all gay guys are child abusers. Obviously that is not the case. The vast majority of gay 0.53

00:24:49.300 guys are not child abusers, but the numbers are the numbers. The LGBT identification in the United

00:24:54.000 States is 7.1%. That's according to Gallup. According to the Williams Institute at UCLA Law,

00:25:00.180 so not some far right think tank, according to a very liberal storied institution, 20% of registered

00:25:08.340 sex offenders identify as LGBT. We're not allowed to say that. We're not allowed to confront that 0.99

00:25:13.300 fact because it's politically incorrect. So what happens? These stories pop up and you don't read

00:25:16.860 about it anywhere. You read about it in town hall. Maybe you hear it on my show and that's it. And it

00:25:20.520 gets buried. For what? So that we can continue perpetuating lies that harm all of society,

00:25:27.240 that harms certain people specifically, but harm all of us when we are forced to live in a culture

00:25:31.560 of lies. We should say no to that. This month, we are celebrating the anniversary of one of the

00:25:37.160 greatest moments in Daily Wire history when we said no to Joe Biden. After months of leading the

00:25:42.760 legal battle against the federal government and a national do not comply campaign, the Supreme Court

00:25:47.020 ruled in our favor, blocked the Biden administration's outrageous vaccine mandate. See, that was a Freudian

00:25:54.000 slip. I almost said the Obama. It's kind of like the O'Biden administration. It's just the third term

00:25:59.700 for Barack Obama. This mandate would have set a dangerous precedent, giving the unelected OSHA

00:26:04.460 power over the personal medical decisions of American citizens. The Supreme Court recognized this gross

00:26:10.120 power grab, obviously made the right decision. We are so proud to have led the charge in this fight.

00:26:15.420 We could not have done it without you. Thousands of you joined the Daily Wire. Over a million Americans

00:26:19.760 signed our petition against the mandates. To celebrate, we are offering 40% off our annual

00:26:24.780 memberships with the code DO NOTCOMPLY. Life would have been really tough had that mandate gone into

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00:26:37.420 membership. Join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Join the winning team as we continue to crush

00:26:42.660 the libs. Do not comply. Use that code for 40% off. Speaking of political dishonesty, the White House

00:26:50.460 has still not managed to come up with a coherent and uniform line to answer for Joe Biden's

00:26:57.680 mishandling of classified documents. Mishandling of documents when he had no right to do it.

00:27:03.720 Unlike Trump, Joe Biden was not the president when he was allegedly mishandling these documents.

00:27:09.260 Unlike Trump, they weren't just locked in a closet where the National Archives,

00:27:12.400 knew where they were. They were in his garage. They were in a garage that Hunter had access to

00:27:17.980 and used Hunter Biden while he was shilling his influence for the Ukrainians and the Chinese.

00:27:23.560 Highly sensitive classified documents in their garage. Classified documents in Joe Biden's

00:27:28.300 fake think tank, which was funded by the Chinese communists. You think the donors maybe took a walk 0.72

00:27:32.580 through the office, maybe had some access to those documents. Entirely plausible. No. No, no.

00:27:39.280 They haven't come up with an answer to it. In fact, Karine Jean-Pierre is pretty much just walking

00:27:43.980 out because she can't answer. You told me six times that turned out to be false. Are you sorry

00:27:49.940 about that? I'll see you tomorrow. Come talk to me. I'll see you tomorrow. There she is. And the 0.99

00:27:56.340 reporter you heard, the first part was a little bit cut off by the microphones, was James Rosen,

00:28:01.120 who's a very serious journalist. He's worked for slightly more right-wing outlets. He worked for

00:28:07.140 Fox News for a while. But James Rosen is considered a very, very mainstream journalist. He pointed out

00:28:15.260 at least six times that KJP had claimed that all Biden classified documents were accounted for and

00:28:21.980 that turned out to be false. So she either was completely ignorant or she was lying. And so he said,

00:28:26.140 hey, you can't lie to us. I know that your job is to spin, but you can't really lie. Are you going

00:28:30.660 to apologize? She says, bye. See you. Not even going to acknowledge it. But we know this because

00:28:35.920 Joe Biden is, even by politician standards, the most notorious liar in our political life today.

00:28:42.860 More than Trump. I'm not saying Trump has never said anything that isn't totally true.

00:28:46.860 But Biden has said many more significant, serious lies for longer. Barack Obama has told very,

00:28:53.540 very serious lies. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Oh, Biden still got him beat.

00:28:58.980 Hillary, Bill, well, I did not have sexual relations. Biden still got him beat. 0.84

00:29:06.260 And now we just found out proof that Biden lied again. Biden claimed just a few days ago,

00:29:11.540 we talked about it on the show, that he grew up in a black Protestant church, which was a little

00:29:17.360 strange when he said it because Biden constantly brags about how he's a devout Catholic, even though he

00:29:22.620 doesn't believe undeniable truths required dogmas of the Catholic church. Joe Biden nevertheless

00:29:32.020 presents himself as this devout Catholic. So how could a devout Catholic every day after mass go

00:29:36.880 worship in a black, well, it doesn't matter if it's a black church. He called it a black church 0.93

00:29:42.140 because he also is offensively denying that there are black Catholics, which there are many. But to go to

00:29:47.200 a Protestant church, that itself would be considered a sin in, in the Catholic church. And no one believed

00:29:52.400 it anyway, though. Do you seriously believe that Corn Pop took Joe to the black church after? No,

00:29:56.540 of course not. And now we have proof of it because Joe Biden was at Raphael Warnock's church and there

00:30:01.660 were some real spiritual hymns going on. People were moving, they were flowing, they were clapping.

00:30:07.800 There he is. You see all the choir in the background singing about the spirit and Biden doesn't know what

00:30:21.120 to do. Even Warnock, he's clapping. Everybody out there in the congregation.

00:30:29.200 What does Biden do? He raises his hand. What do I do? That is not a man who has ever

00:30:43.940 seriously attended a black Protestant church. You got to move. He reminds like the opening scene 1.00

00:30:48.920 of The Jerk with Steve Martin. I was born a poor black child. And then he's there and the way that

00:30:55.620 he finds out he's adopted is because he can't, he can't dance because he doesn't have any rhythm.

00:30:59.860 Certainly Joe Biden too. Now, speaking of contrasting leadership, as the World Economic

00:31:04.900 Forum 2023 wraps up, this, this is an important year for the World Economic Forum because it marks

00:31:09.580 the first year in my life that there has been widespread attention to this globalist meetup in

00:31:16.120 the middle of the Swiss Alps in a very, very rarefied territory that's very expensive to get to.

00:31:22.620 And the reason it's held there is because it's hard to get to. And you're not going to have a

00:31:28.800 lot of protesters making it all the way up the mountain in the Swiss Alps. And now a lot of

00:31:33.140 people are paying attention to it. Don't forget though, Donald Trump showed up to the World Economic

00:31:37.560 Forum back in 2018. But unlike the Swiss Republicans who have gone, Donald Trump showed up to the World

00:31:45.280 Economic Forum with a clear message for the globalist liberals.

00:31:50.280 I'm aware that your strong leadership is open to misconceptions and biased interpretations.

00:32:00.100 So far, it is so essential for us in the room to listen directly to you.

00:32:07.980 I'm here today to represent the interests of the American people. The world is witnessing

00:32:13.660 the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America. I'm here to deliver a simple message. There has

00:32:22.220 never been a better time to hire, to build, to invest, and to grow in the United States. Regulation is

00:32:30.300 stealth taxation. The U.S., like many other countries, unelected bureaucrats. I mean, we have, believe me,

00:32:40.220 we have them all over the place. And they've imposed crushing and anti-business and anti-worker

00:32:46.660 regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability.

00:32:54.580 In America, those days are over. He showed up to the World Economic Forum to tell these people that

00:33:02.400 he disagreed with everything that they held dear. That's a beautiful thing. And it shows you a good

00:33:08.800 way forward because the Republicans who showed up to this thing got flack, rightly so, because the

00:33:14.340 Republicans who showed up to this thing broadly seem on board with the World Economic Forum Great

00:33:19.200 Reset type agenda. But the reason they were criticized for that is because we had these

00:33:25.880 people's numbers before they showed up to Davos. If Donald Trump showed up to Davos, I think we know

00:33:31.220 he's not going there to kiss the ring of Klaus Schwab. If Lauren Boebert showed up to Davos to give a

00:33:36.700 speech, if she were ever invited, I sort of doubt that someone, that right wing would be invited. But if 0.99

00:33:41.400 she were, we would know that she's going there to stick a finger in the eye. The question we've got to ask 0.61

00:33:47.060 about this is not, are you willing to engage in this culture? I think it'd be great. I want Trump

00:33:52.140 to show up every year. I want him to just stick a finger in their eye every single year. I think

00:33:55.660 that would be wonderful. I'm not saying we totally disengage from the libs. Frankly, I think that kind

00:34:01.020 of attitude is what's got us in this mess in the first place. We abandoned the universities. We

00:34:04.780 abandoned Hollywood. We abandoned the political realm because we convinced ourselves that wielding

00:34:09.840 political power was wrong per se. And what did that do? That just gave the libs the stage. No,

00:34:14.300 don't give them the stage. Show up and tell them what you think and bring them into line. That's

00:34:18.460 fine by me. You just got to know where they stand and who they stand for. Gretchen Whitmer, 1.00

00:34:23.080 the governor of Michigan, Democrat governor of Michigan was at the World Economic Forum today.

00:34:28.660 Why was she here? Was she here to represent the interests of the American people? Was she here

00:34:32.580 to represent her constituents? No, of course not. She was here to play along with the bidding of the

00:34:38.940 Davos set. Know who the people are standing for. If you can read clearly what they stand for,

00:34:46.900 then send them out. Send them out to engage in the world. There's nothing wrong with that.

00:34:52.900 We just have to win. Welcome back to my favorite time of the week. The voice mailbag brought to you

00:34:57.980 by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com right now. Select a plan. Enter code Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S,

00:35:02.560 to get 50% off your first month. Take it away with the first question. Hey, Michael. In today's world,

00:35:10.200 is it possible to separate someone from being conservative and being a Republican? With the

00:35:14.660 number of squish Republicans growing, when is it time that true conservatives cut ties and create

00:35:19.480 a party that actually stands on true conservative foundation and will actually stand by that? Thanks.

00:35:28.180 We will never purge the squishes from the Republican Party. That is not possible because there are not 1.00

00:35:34.140 enough hardcore conservatives. And there are many, many squishes. And there are many, many libs.

00:35:39.900 So you do have to figure out a way to get the squishes to work with you and to vote for your 1.00

00:35:45.260 sorts of candidates. The problem is not that there are squishes who vote for Republican candidates.

00:35:49.960 The problem is that the Republican politicians cater to the squishes over the conservatives. And so what

00:35:55.620 we have to do is figure out a way for the conservatives, not to leave the alliance that

00:36:01.940 we've made with the squishes, but to lead the alliance that we've made with the squishes.

00:36:07.620 We need to craft the political conditions, and this is an art, politics is an art,

00:36:13.580 such that the liberal, the squishes rather, will go along with what the conservatives,

00:36:19.300 we conservatives want them to go along with, and that the squishes will not be tempted to defect

00:36:26.880 for the liberals. And that's just, that requires a little bit of massage. It's why you've got to

00:36:34.480 be wise as a dove and innocent as a serpent. And you can't actually affect political progress and

00:36:42.560 change and all the buzzwords that we want to affect. You can't do good in the political realm

00:36:47.200 if you are going to let the perfect get in the way of the good. We've just got to figure out a way

00:36:53.120 to be a little gutsier, because as long as the conservatives remain the junior partner

00:36:56.680 in this alliance that we've made with the squishes, then we might as well vote for Democrats half the 1.00

00:37:02.380 time. Okay, next question. Hey, Michael. This is Jake. I've noticed there's a trend that seems to

00:37:09.480 be maligning millennials for not growing up. And I think that the boomers, who are my parents as a

00:37:19.540 millennial, don't receive this criticism when they absolutely should. I don't think that they have

00:37:27.560 ever got out of a materialistic, hedonistic mindset they had since they were children. And I think that

00:37:34.120 extrapolates into the fact that they run from being patriarchs and matriarchs of a family. 0.89

00:37:39.980 And they cut bait, abandon their children and their grandchildren for retirement homes in Florida

00:37:45.520 and hoarding wealth. They have 65% of the wealth in the country. They had 20% when they were my age.

00:37:53.480 And my generation, millennials, have 4% of the wealth. So I don't think that we should stop at

00:38:00.680 criticizing millennials for not growing up. Fair enough. Very good point. And yes, 1.00

00:38:05.440 as a matter of fact, the boomers deserve all the criticism that they get as a generation. However,

00:38:11.760 millennials, and I guess some of the older Zoomers should not be the ones to criticize them. 0.98

00:38:18.360 And the reason for that is they are our parents. And that's, and that's wrong. You have to honor your

00:38:24.340 father and mother. I'm not saying that the criticism of the boomers is not warranted. 0.96

00:38:30.000 I was talking to Drew, my very good friend who happens to be a boomer. He said,

00:38:35.040 Michael, we ruined everything. It was all the boomers fault. Everything they say about us is 1.00

00:38:38.900 true. And we know that. And yet it is still wrong for millennials as a rule to whine about the boomers

00:38:46.560 because there are parents and we should say thank you. Thank you, boomers, boomer parents for giving

00:38:51.380 us the things you gave us. Thank you for doing your best. We appreciate the gift of life you gave us.

00:38:56.220 We're going to honor our mothers and fathers and we can learn from the boomers and not make some of 1.00

00:38:59.980 the mistakes that they did. Hey Michael, huge fan of the show. I wanted to ask you a question related

00:39:06.100 to the medical world and what your opinion is on it. So in Star Trek Voyager, there's an episode

00:39:10.740 where a patient who is dying on the medical bed was offered treatment to save him. However,

00:39:15.760 the doctor who was performing the operation was a doctor who performed research on the patient's

00:39:22.340 species of people and almost entirely killed them all from these experiments. Obviously,

00:39:27.900 the patient refused treatment on the grounds that he didn't want research performed on him that was

00:39:32.740 done on his people involuntarily. So what would you do in this situation? I think I know your answer,

00:39:37.800 but I'd love to hear it. Thanks. Well, I'm glad that you know my answer. I'm not sure that I know my

00:39:42.660 answer. So I'd like you to inform me of my answer because I would just need to know much more.

00:39:47.680 I would need to know if the Mengele type of doctor had had a change of heart. Had he repented? Had he

00:39:58.640 regretted what he had done and then gone ahead and changed his ways? And could I trust that he was

00:40:06.520 going to give me decent medical care? If I could trust that, then I wouldn't refuse the life-saving

00:40:13.100 medical care just because of some sins he had committed in the past. I wouldn't cut off my nose

00:40:17.560 despite my face. That would be crazy. Now, if I thought that he was just going to experiment on

00:40:22.000 me and rip my guts out and do all sorts of experiments on them, then I'd say, no, I probably

00:40:25.220 would refuse the care because it wouldn't be care. It would be just further abuse. But I do, and it

00:40:30.720 also depends, do I have a terminal illness? Do I have a kind of disease that would require

00:40:38.880 extraordinary, extraordinary measures to keep me alive? And would I be very, very aged and frail at

00:40:45.120 this point? Would I be nearing natural death anyway? Would the care be ordinary kind of medical care

00:40:52.380 or extraordinary kind of medical care? What would it be? I'd have to, because if it were ordinary

00:40:57.880 medical care and it were a normal course of events, I think I would probably have an obligation to

00:41:02.480 accept it because of the law of self-preservation, which is part of the natural law. So I don't know.

00:41:08.560 And I've never seen Star Trek, so I really don't know. Next question. Hi, Michael. My name's RJ,

00:41:13.220 longtime listener. I was with my friends when the issue of whether or not God exists came up. I said

00:41:18.540 he did, and they agreed somewhat, but they said there was no way to be sure. I gave what was

00:41:22.980 essentially C.S. Lewis's argument for the Tao, that, you know, that there is such a thing as an

00:41:27.040 objective good and bad, and there's universal truth within all of us. They rejected this and said

00:41:32.100 there is no universal morality. And they used slavery as an example, not the fact that it existed and

00:41:37.880 still exists, but that there were many who genuinely did not believe they were doing anything wrong.

00:41:43.320 I've struggled with this, as the Tao, as C.S. Lewis describes it, would mean that no one,

00:41:47.480 or at least the vast majority of people, could participate in something such as slavery without

00:41:52.080 seeing it as objectively evil. The argument for universal truth and against moral relativism is

00:41:58.300 what brought me back to Christianity after several years of waning belief. Please clear this seeming

00:42:03.400 contradiction, as it would vastly improve my state of mind. The Daily Wire,

00:42:07.560 and of course C.S. Lewis, have been instrumental in guiding my faith. And though you've yet to

00:42:11.560 convert me to Catholicism, given more time, I have no doubt you'll get me there. Thanks, Michael. I

00:42:16.520 greatly appreciate it. I'm very pleased to hear all of that. That's absolutely wonderful. So, wow,

00:42:22.800 that's all really great. Well, since you're basically begging me to convert you to Catholicism,

00:42:27.640 I would quote the First Vatican Council. Not the Second Vatican Council, but the First Vatican

00:42:31.680 Council, which states that the existence of God can be known with certainty by the light of human

00:42:39.280 reason from the natural world. Okay? So, I know that today many modern people want to say, well,

00:42:45.380 we can never really know if God exists or not, and it's just a pure leap of faith, man. But that is

00:42:50.260 not true. We can know for certain that God exists. There are many good arguments as to why God exists.

00:42:55.720 You name one of those arguments, which is that we know that some things are better than other things.

00:43:01.060 We know that there are objective realities. There is objective goodness. If anything is better than

00:43:07.640 any other thing, then there has to be a maximally great thing, the sumum bonum, to use, I don't know,

00:43:14.800 some kind of, is that Spanish or something? I don't know. That's some kind of old language.

00:43:17.920 If anything is true or false, then there has to be an objective reality that underlies the whole world.

00:43:26.080 If things are in motion, we know that in our universe things are in motion, then there has to be

00:43:30.660 some way that they got to be in motion. If things are caused in this world, and if we see the effects

00:43:38.240 of those causes, then there has to be a first cause. There has to be an uncaused cause. There are many

00:43:43.340 other arguments. You can go through the five arguments for the existence of God of St. Thomas Aquinas.

00:43:48.520 There are many other good arguments. I love the ontological argument for God. That's not the most

00:43:52.480 popular one. The fact that God is by definition the maximally great being, and it's better to exist

00:43:58.360 than not to exist. Therefore, God by definition must exist. It's a charming argument. It doesn't

00:44:03.240 convince a lot of people. I think it did convince C.S. Lewis. Anyway, those are all good arguments.

00:44:08.100 If your friend's objection is that some people disagree over certain aspects of morality, I don't

00:44:15.360 deny that, but I don't think that undermines Lewis's understanding of the Tao either. That doesn't

00:44:21.140 undermine the fact that human beings are born with a moral conscience, and we can know that certain

00:44:24.960 things are right and wrong simply by reason because they're a part of the natural law. That doesn't

00:44:30.120 undermine that. It is, in fact, the case that, one, certain people are just so eccentric or so

00:44:36.460 depraved that their reason and conscience is defective. That happens in the world. This is a fallen

00:44:41.940 world, and so we need education to fix those rare occasions. It's also the case that certain

00:44:50.140 instantiations of moral laws can look different in different places. So we recognize that it is

00:44:58.940 wrong to commit murder, but different jurisdictions will have different laws on killing, killing by the

00:45:04.280 state, killing as a matter of retribution, killing in times of war. And so you can see different

00:45:09.020 instantiations of that, and reasonable minds can disagree over those things, but that wouldn't

00:45:12.280 contradict the natural law. Much more to say on this topic, but we're running out of time, and I want

00:45:15.960 to get to at least one mailbag question. Okay, this mailbag question is from John. It is on the topic

00:45:23.080 of pornography. Okay, and we don't have a mailbag segment, or rather a member block segment today

00:45:28.220 because I'm on the road. So I'm just going to go along, and I'm going to do it anyway because I want

00:45:32.220 to at least get to one written mailbag, and this is one people send in porn questions all the time.

00:45:35.940 Hello, Michael. Many young single guys like me have struggles with porn. I would also like to

00:45:40.560 get married and have a family someday, but I feel like my addiction is an obstacle to that. I don't

00:45:45.360 feel like it's very fair to subject a future wife to my problem, as I know how painful it is for women

00:45:50.420 whose husbands watch porn. What do you think is the best approach? You often make the point that it's

00:45:53.680 a fallen world, which is true, but should my fallenness discourage me from getting married? Thanks,

00:45:57.700 John. No, it shouldn't discourage you from getting married. It should encourage you

00:46:00.460 to practice virtue and to repent of your sins and to do so realistically. Okay, you point out here,

00:46:11.000 and I point it out on the show all the time, guys write into me constantly about porn. I talk to

00:46:17.680 priests. Priests tell me that 90% plus of the guys who show up into the confessional are confessing,

00:46:23.240 looking at porn at some point. It's ubiquitous. It's everywhere. Okay, and it's not entirely your

00:46:28.000 fault. You live in a culture that promotes porn, where we've all got these little portals to hell

00:46:32.160 in our pockets, and we've got computers everywhere, and even just ordinary billboards and TV shows have

00:46:36.220 a lot of pornographic content. So go easy on yourself, but don't relax your view of morality

00:46:43.080 because your moral intuition is right, and you're recognizing that it's destroying your life. So

00:46:46.740 treat it like any other addiction. You called it an addiction. Treat it like any other addiction,

00:46:52.040 and just try to go one day without looking at it. If you're looking at porn every single day,

00:46:58.000 just try to go one day without looking at porn. This is what you'd tell an alcoholic.

00:47:02.380 Some guys drinking all the time every single day say, try to go one day without a drink. Try to go

00:47:06.300 one day without looking at porn. You're not saying I'm going to go my whole life, and you're going to

00:47:10.340 get the shakes like you're a drug addict. Just say you're going to go one day. If you're looking at

00:47:14.060 porn, I don't know, let's say you're looking at porn three times a week. Say, okay, I'm going to try

00:47:20.360 not to look at porn at all, but if I do, I'm only going to look at it one time a week. And then you do that

00:47:24.080 for a little bit, and maybe you backslide, people backslide. But then after a while say,

00:47:28.160 okay, maybe if you reduced it to two times a week, reduce it to one time. If you reduced it to one

00:47:32.500 time, reduce it to no times. You can grow in these things. The devil's trick is to convince you that

00:47:37.800 you can never improve because he's going to make you a slave to your lusts. But habits are such that

00:47:43.500 because virtue is a habit, the more you practice virtue, the easier it's going to be.

00:47:48.820 Like vice is a habit. And so the more you engage in a vice, the harder it's going to be to pull

00:47:55.360 away from that vice. And so time is your friend here, okay? And if you just keep it up day by day

00:48:00.500 at a time, and I would recommend sacramental confession. I know that some people don't buy

00:48:06.360 into sacramental confession. I think it spiritually is very effective. And even if you don't buy that,

00:48:11.960 psychologically, it's very effective to get on your knees and confess your sins to God

00:48:15.740 in the presence of a man who you believe has the power to forgive sins and cleanse your soul.

00:48:23.420 And I happen to believe that those graces actually work. They have a real effect on your soul.

00:48:30.360 But psychologically, at least, even if you're a hardcore atheist, I think you can understand why

00:48:35.400 that would work and why that kind of accountability would work and why that reassurance that, okay,

00:48:39.420 son, your sins are forgiven. It's a fallen world. Don't worry. Don't let your sins bury you.

00:48:43.400 Don't let your bad habits bury you. You can improve. So take it seriously.

00:48:48.540 But do so in the light of grace. That's the only way that you're going to overcome it.

00:48:53.360 And I think you can overcome it. All right. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This

00:48:55.780 The Michael Knowles Show. See you next time.

00:49:13.400 You're welcome.

The Michael Knowles Show - January 20, 2023

Ep. 1166 - Greta Vs Klaus Schwab

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