The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1179 - Biden's Trainwreck State Of The Union

00:00:00.000 We're facing a lot of problems as a nation. Record high inflation, rising crime, food shortages,

00:00:07.320 Chinese spy planes, and the prospect of World War III. But one issue rises above all those threats,

00:00:15.080 and President Biden addressed it last night during the State of the Union.

00:00:18.800 I speak, of course, about hotel resort fees.

00:00:23.320 My administration has also taken on junk fees. Those hidden surcharges too many companies use

00:00:29.580 to make you pay more. We're going to ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill.

00:00:35.980 Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts. And we'll

00:00:41.260 prohibit airlines from charging $50 roundtrip for family just to be able to sit together.

00:00:47.300 Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines can't treat your child like a piece of baggage.

00:00:52.740 For too long, workers have been getting stiffed. But not anymore.

00:00:57.240 Therefore, we're beginning to restore the dignity of work. For example, 30 million workers have to sign

00:01:04.860 non-compete agreements for the jobs they take. 30 million. So a cashier at a burger place can't walk

00:01:14.220 across town and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more. But not anymore.

00:01:20.360 We're banning those agreements. So companies have to compete for workers and pay them what they're

00:01:25.480 worth. People can't afford eggs. The cost of eggs rose 60% last year. Much more than that in some

00:01:35.160 places. Joe Biden hasn't fixed any of the things he said he'd fixed. In almost every single case,

00:01:40.640 he's made those problems worse. But hey, he says he's going to try really hard to reduce resort fees

00:01:48.500 and luggage fees and the burden of non-compete clauses in the apparently C-suite level contracts

00:01:59.940 of fast food workers. He can't do anything that would actually improve your life.

00:02:06.600 But he promises to do some minor things that probably won't affect your life very much.

00:02:13.740 You've got Joe's word on that. And when has Joe Biden ever lied to you?

00:02:18.640 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:27.420 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Berserker117,

00:02:31.360 who says, anyone else notice how the red color theme of the Grammy Awards matched the color of

00:02:37.840 Biden's speech last night? He's a red. No, the problem is he's not even a red. 0.99

00:02:44.580 He's certainly not a conservative. He's not a commie. He's just a stale, old, tired,

00:02:51.300 establishment liberal. So it seems like the worst of all possible worlds.

00:02:56.720 If he were a commie, at least he'd have a vision. It would be an evil vision,

00:02:59.880 but he'd have a vision. Here, the vision is, I'm not going to do anything to fix anything.

00:03:05.500 It's all falling apart. But you guys ever notice those resort fees? You ever notice that? It's

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00:04:24.520 with gold today. That is Knowles to 98-98-98. I can't get over the resort fees. That was,

00:04:32.220 to me, that was the highlight of the night because it wasn't even just that he picked this really stupid

00:04:37.380 issue to focus on amid all of the historic problems that we have. It's that he really

00:04:43.640 thought this would resonate. When he leaned into the microphone, said, we're going to stop those resort

00:04:48.580 fees at hotels that sometimes aren't even resorts. Who was he speaking to? Do you remember when the

00:04:57.080 Democrats were the party of the working man? Republicans were the party of rich Uncle Penny

00:05:00.860 Bags, the plutocrat? And now, the biggest issue, and at the time of greatest economic turmoil since

00:05:07.440 at least 2008, what the Democrats are focusing on is resorts and airplane inconveniences.

00:05:15.140 You know, when you're jet setting around the world to go to your resorts,

00:05:18.900 sometimes you have to pay an extra 50 bucks to check your bag. Well, we're going to put an end

00:05:23.060 to that. And we're going to put an end to non-compete agreements, which 99.9% of the time only affect

00:05:30.840 high earning, C-suite level, and upper management level workers. And he's pretending that it's burger

00:05:38.520 flippers who have to sign non-competes. Give me a break. I'm not going to subject you to the rest of

00:05:43.380 the speech. And I'm not even one of those conservatives who hates the State of the Union

00:05:48.320 per se. You know, Ben frequently says it's monarchical garbage, and he hates every State

00:05:52.840 of the Union. I don't mind it. I like that there's this one event every year in our politics that

00:05:59.960 unifies both houses of Congress and both parties. And we all have to go and pretend that we like the

00:06:04.640 president, or at least that we're semi-unified. And it draws a lot of public attention to our

00:06:09.960 political system. It's got grandeur. It's somewhat uplifting compared to the rest of

00:06:13.680 our politics. But last night was just bad. It was just a bad one. The cleverest part of the night was

00:06:18.720 in the very beginning. Joe Biden opened up the speech by congratulating Kevin McCarthy on becoming

00:06:24.960 speaker. This was a dig at the Republicans. It was a stab in the back to McCarthy because he knows that

00:06:35.400 if he, Joe Biden, praises Kevin McCarthy, that's going to hurt Kevin McCarthy with Republicans.

00:06:41.600 And it was a real twisting of the knife to MAGA, because MAGA and the more conservative members of

00:06:47.840 Congress opposed Kevin McCarthy. So it was a way to just put a little wedge in there with the

00:06:52.120 Republicans. It was cleverly done. Joe Biden did the same thing to Mitch McConnell. Mitch,

00:06:56.260 we've known each other forever. Looking forward to working with you. It was just another way

00:06:59.540 to divide the Senate Republican leader from his base. Another funny moment of the night was when

00:07:07.060 Joe Biden referred to his achievement of near-record unemployment for blacks and Hispanics. That's an 1.00

00:07:14.300 important phrase, is near-record unemployment for blacks and Hispanics, right? Who had the record 0.99

00:07:21.760 unemployment? Which president, starts with a T, ends with a rump, achieved the record unemployment,

00:07:29.540 oh, he can't say that. So he says near-record unemployment. So it's just, he's basically

00:07:33.880 saying Trump did a great job on black and Hispanic unemployment, and I haven't completely ruined it

00:07:38.780 in just a few years. Then Joe Biden focused on the talk. This is another ridiculous issue.

00:07:47.280 This is this line, allegedly, that black parents have to have with black children to say,

00:07:52.820 you know, listen, police are going to kill you because you're a black person. So you've got to be 1.00

00:07:57.980 extra, super special, respectful to the police, and you've got to play by a different set of rules

00:08:02.420 with the police than white people do. It's not true. It's not true. They say this is a talk white

00:08:06.640 students, white parents never need to have with their children. It's not true. Okay, when I was

00:08:12.620 learning how to drive, I was taught if a cop pulls you over, you stay perfectly still, hands on the 10 and

00:08:19.320 the two on the wheel. Yes, sir, no, sir. Yes, officer, no, officer. Everybody gets that talk.

00:08:25.480 And unfortunately, a lot of people who don't get that talk are the ones who end up in the situations

00:08:30.160 that are provocative with the police. It's not a racial thing. And he did it with Tyree Nichols,

00:08:36.480 the parents of Tyree Nichols, who was killed exclusively by black cops, but still trying to

00:08:41.580 race bait. That's part of every single Democrat state of the union. Then the biggest applause line of

00:08:45.700 the night was when Joe Biden said we need to kill a lot more babies in the country, and he would work

00:08:49.860 to protect abortion and federal law. That was the moment that all of those demonically obsessed or

00:08:56.320 possessed Democrats stood up there and cheered like a bunch of hyenas. And then there was another

00:09:02.260 great line. He says, name me a world leader who would change places with Xi Jinping. The answer to

00:09:07.900 which is most of them would, because Xi Jinping is a very powerful leader on the world stage, and he's

00:09:13.040 currently eating Joe Biden's lunch. And then the final little bit of unity we got from the State

00:09:19.000 of the Union was when Joe Biden tried to tie the Paul Pelosi attack by a polygamous, lunatic, illegal, 0.96

00:09:26.260 alien, vagrant in San Francisco, a city that hasn't been governed by Republicans since the Stone Age.

00:09:33.040 He tried to tie that to

00:09:34.380 January 6th, the very worst day in the history of the world. And he did it in a way that was actually

00:09:43.700 very, very clunky and is, of course, preposterous. That was the whole speech. If you didn't watch it,

00:09:50.260 you didn't miss very much. The Republicans had a response. They actually had more than one response.

00:09:56.420 And the response was given by Sarah Sanders. This is the hardest job in politics. It never helps

00:10:02.340 people's careers. But I got to tell you, I thought Sarah, having been given this terrible job, I

00:10:08.540 thought Sarah did a phenomenal job at the the State of the Union response. While you reap the

00:10:15.920 consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke

00:10:21.740 fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day. Most Americans simply want to live their

00:10:28.180 lives in freedom and peace. But we are under attack in a left wing culture war. We didn't start and never

00:10:35.460 wanted to fight. Every day we are told we must partake in their rituals, salute their flags and worship

00:10:42.560 their false idols. All while big government colludes with big tech to strip away the most American

00:10:48.760 thing there is, your freedom of speech. That's not normal. It's crazy. And it's wrong.

00:10:56.460 Make no mistake. Republicans will not surrender this fight. We will lead with courage and do what's

00:11:05.840 right, not what's politically correct or convenient. Love it. I think Sarah is terrific. I thought she

00:11:12.500 was one of the best press secretaries we've had in American history. I think she's doing a great job

00:11:17.700 down there as governor of Arkansas. What does she do? Take note, squishy Republicans. What does she do? 1.00

00:11:23.240 She doesn't give some anodyne speech about how we just need to deregulate. Just deregulate,

00:11:31.320 get the government out of our lives. We're, come on, the left is insane. We're the sane people.

00:11:37.220 No, she said, we're in a culture war. We're in a culture war that we didn't start. The left started

00:11:43.220 it. The left started the culture war. And then what do they say? They always say,

00:11:47.160 well, who cares about the transgender bathrooms? Who cares about what your kids are being taught in 0.93

00:11:51.560 school? Gay porn in the elementary school library? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? 1.00

00:11:56.860 You guys care. The libs care. Why do you care? Because it matters. Maybe the conservatives should

00:12:02.820 care too. I thought Sarah did a bang up job. Her presentation was great. Didn't seem angry.

00:12:08.400 Didn't seem weak. She just seemed on the money. She had a very clear vision. But unfortunately,

00:12:14.940 that very clear vision, which has worked out very well in Virginia, culture war won us the 0.61

00:12:19.920 Virginia governorship. Worked out very well in Florida. Culture war gave us the victories in

00:12:24.820 Florida. And Ron DeSantis is now one of the leading Republican candidates for president in 2024.

00:12:30.940 Hasn't even declared that he's running. But the Republicans gave another speech.

00:12:35.780 And it was not all that culturally conservative. In fact, it was not even in English. When things

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00:14:03.020 the Union response, this one in Spanish. I'm pleased to say that at least one of the three

00:14:09.020 State of the Union addresses last night was in English. We had Congressman Juan Ciscomane,

00:14:14.860 he spoke Spanish. Joe Biden spoke gibberish. Sarah Sanders at least spoke some English.

00:14:22.380 Juan Ciscomane had this to say. President Biden wants you to believe everything's great.

00:14:31.620 But why aren't people feeling great? American dream feels unattainable, the President fails

00:14:37.620 to show, leadership present any viable solution. He hasn't had solutions and clearly still doesn't.

00:14:47.620 As House Republicans, we've already begun to offer a different direction. To address the most significant

00:14:55.620 issues impacting American families. Under the leadership of Kevin McCarthy,

00:15:03.620 we've made a compromiso commitment to America. Commitment to every American that prioritizes a

00:15:12.620 a strong economy, a secure nation, a future based on freedom.

00:15:20.620 That's the compromiso con los Estados Unidos that the Republicans are offering us. You know what

00:15:25.500 compromiso I would like? That we conserve anything in this country, that we conserve anything.

00:15:31.580 That compromiso would be really nice to me. If we could conserve the women's bathroom, 1.00

00:15:38.040 that would be, that'd be a nice thing to conserve. Republicans, conservatives failed to do that.

00:15:43.480 If we could conserve the English language, the language that we're supposed to speak as a nation,

00:15:48.640 that would be good. I'd, I'd sign up for that compromiso, but I guess it wouldn't be a compromiso.

00:15:53.880 It would be a pledge, a promise, a commitment, a vision. It would be even remotely conservative.

00:16:00.040 My problem here is not with Juan Siscomani, as some people, I think, have misinterpreted my views on

00:16:06.600 this rather important subject. Juan Siscomani seems great. He's a newcomer to politics, so we don't

00:16:12.840 really know how conservative he is, where he falls. But if you just look at his policy positions,

00:16:17.640 if you look at the way he ran his campaign, he seems quite conservative. And frankly, more importantly,

00:16:23.960 in many ways, he clearly leads a conservative life. He's married. He has six kids. Great. Very

00:16:31.060 admirable stuff. He looks the part. He behaves the part. But he hasn't quite sound the part

00:16:37.580 of conservatism, because this is the American nation. And here in America, we're supposed to

00:16:44.000 speak English. And so you can give the most eloquent, beautiful speech in the world about cutting taxes

00:16:51.300 and preserving freedom and the American dream and securing the nation. If you're giving it in a

00:16:55.760 foreign language, during a major national political event that is supposed to unify us as a nation,

00:17:03.620 that is not conservative. That's the opposite of conservative. And it's deeply offensive.

00:17:09.340 It makes a mockery of our tradition and the very idea that we are one nation. We have nothing that

00:17:16.340 unifies us in this country. We used to have more that unified us. We don't have that anymore.

00:17:22.720 And in some cases, the loss of that unity was intentional and was done with the very best of

00:17:29.980 intentions and comes out of some of the historical circumstances of the United States. But it is just

00:17:36.640 a matter of historical fact that nations traditionally can be unified by religion. We no longer are unified

00:17:43.540 that way. It can be unified by race. We used to be much more unified that way. But there were always

00:17:50.380 racial differences in America, just from the fact that the Dutch came over. Then you had the English 0.55

00:17:55.980 come over. Then I'm just talking about New York right there. And there were already Native Americans

00:18:00.140 there in New York. It was largely settled by the English in the United States. But you did have people

00:18:04.960 from Spain in the southeast of the United States. You had a whole, you had a bunch of Irish immigrants,

00:18:10.000 some Italian immigrants. You had black slaves, obviously. So it was always racially more 0.97

00:18:15.040 complicated, even though it was predominantly white. But certainly in the age of mass migration,

00:18:18.940 there's no racial unity whatsoever. There used to be some kind of ideological unity,

00:18:24.560 even as the religious unity of the country transformed and started to wane. You at least

00:18:30.260 had ideological unity. The idea of the civic religion, we all venerated the same kinds of symbols and

00:18:35.620 statues and figures. That's gone. Now we're knocking down figures of the statues, rather,

00:18:40.000 of the founding fathers. And we're protesting the star-spangled banner and the symbol of the country

00:18:44.720 itself. All of that is gone. We don't even share an epistemology anymore. We can't even agree on how

00:18:50.180 to know anything at all. The most basic thing we could still share and have together is language,

00:18:58.380 is the way that we speak. And it's the conservatives who take that away. It's very, very offensive.

00:19:05.920 Now, I've heard one good objection to this point of view. This is an objection from a great Twitter

00:19:13.580 account, TK Dillon, who made this point. He said, Michael, you're misunderstanding this because you're

00:19:20.000 thinking of America as a nation. And America is not a nation. If America ever was a nation,

00:19:25.420 it certainly is not a nation any longer. You've got to recognize that the country is essentially just

00:19:30.400 like an empire right now. And we're governing this country not as George Washington would govern a

00:19:36.760 nation. We're governing this country like the Habsburgs would have ruled the Austro-Hungarian 1.00

00:19:41.920 empire or something like that. We've got different pockets with different religions, different cultural

00:19:47.420 backgrounds, different this, different that. And so we've just got to speak to those different pockets

00:19:52.560 and speak into their differences and recognize there is no such thing as national unity.

00:19:58.560 I don't want to give up the idea that we are an American nation. I don't want to give up the idea

00:20:04.860 that we actually have something in common from sea to shining sea. I don't want to give up the idea

00:20:10.140 that despite the differences between the states and the various peoples who constitute the states,

00:20:15.760 that we actually are out of many one. I'm not ready to give up that idea.

00:20:20.420 But if even the freaking conservatives are now giving their state of the union responses in

00:20:28.200 foreign languages, maybe I'm the last one. Maybe I'm the last one who is holding out some hope 0.99

00:20:35.280 for a pluribus unum. Speaking of Republicans with Hispanic last names, Ron DeSantis is getting

00:20:45.460 hammered by Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been really increasing the attacks in recent days. He's

00:20:51.100 no longer just talking about Ron DeSantis. He's now mocking DeSantis for crying as he begged for his

00:21:02.100 endorsement. Ron DeSantis got elected because of me. You remember he had nothing. He was dead. He was

00:21:07.640 leaving the race. He came over and he begged me, begged me for an endorsement. He was getting ready

00:21:12.440 to drop out. I gave him an endorsement. And as soon as I gave that endorsement, in fact, I said,

00:21:18.300 you're going to have a hard time. He was running against Adam Putnam, the commissioner of agriculture,

00:21:23.000 had a massive lead. He's been running for eight years while he was commissioner. He had $40 million

00:21:27.420 in cash. I believe it was 40. And he was up in the poll massively by, you know, but not catchable,

00:21:33.840 not even catchable. He said, if you endorse me, I'll win. And there were tears coming down from his eyes.

00:21:39.700 He said, if you endorse me, I'll win. I'll say, you know what, Ron? Ron was one of 150 people that

00:21:45.880 was on television. There were tears coming down from his eyes. This reminds me of Trump talking

00:21:54.100 about Megyn Kelly. You remember he said, oh, there was blood coming out of everywhere. I don't know.

00:21:59.400 I think that was the line he said. Or the, oh, you know, you've got little Marco there. Little Marco,

00:22:03.800 he's sweating. He's always, he's got, he's drinking water. He's sweating. I don't know what it is with

00:22:08.220 little Marco. This is how Donald Trump brands his opponents. When he does it well, the way that he does it

00:22:14.640 is he focuses on physical attributes. It's little Marco. Oh, it's, you see John Kasich, the way he

00:22:23.780 eats, it's disgusting. You never saw anything so disgusting in your life. Oh, this woman, that 1.00

00:22:29.380 woman, big fat slob. You ever look at that? Oh yeah, Ron, he had tears in his eyes. Trump is a very vivid 0.90

00:22:38.320 describer of his opponents. And, and he paints those pictures with, with words, but he's, he's

00:22:47.460 really painting you an image here. That's what he's doing to DeSantis. He's now also calling DeSantis

00:22:51.840 a groomer. He's saying that when DeSantis was a teacher, he would go around and get cozy with the

00:22:57.600 high school girls and drink with them. And I, and everyone's very upset about this.

00:23:04.320 It's the way it goes guys. This is the, this is what it is. If you're going to run against

00:23:08.880 Donald Trump. And frankly, I'm glad for it. If you're going to run for president, you need a

00:23:13.540 thick skin. You need to be able to work through lots of difficult attacks. Trump said that Ted Cruz's

00:23:18.960 dad murdered JFK. Okay. So if you think that Ron DeSantis, who's a big tough guy, all right,

00:23:24.100 that he can't handle some, some of these attacks from, from Donald Trump, then he's not going to

00:23:29.300 make it very far in the presidential race. This is primary politics, but it shouldn't be this way.

00:23:34.800 Why is Trump doing this? This is what, this is what Trump has to do to give himself the best chance

00:23:40.340 of getting the nomination. And DeSantis isn't punching back because that's what Ron DeSantis has

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00:25:27.920 Speaking of Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, he's making enemies. He's making enemies over there at The View.

00:25:37.080 Whoopi Goldberg is furious, specifically at Ron DeSantis. She calls him a freak who's trying to rewrite

00:25:42.980 history. There is not America's history without these brown and black people. That's what I want 1.00

00:25:50.280 to hear him say tonight, because one of the things that he knows is he knows that women in particular

00:26:00.080 have worked, and particularly brown women, have worked their butts off to make sure that he became 1.00

00:26:06.800 the president. And I need to hear him say, this bonehead in Florida and in Texas is out of step

00:26:17.660 with America. He's out of step with who we are as a nation, because there is no nation without us.

00:26:26.200 And I need, I need to hear him say that as my president. I need to know that he's aware that

00:26:38.860 there are freaks out there who are trying to change history, and he's not going to stand for it. That's

00:26:45.640 what I want from you, Joe. At least for that last part, fact check true. There are freaks out there

00:26:52.980 who are trying to change and rewrite history. It's not the freaks that Whoopi's talking about,

00:26:57.980 but there are freaks trying to do that. In fact, the most prominent example of this in recent years

00:27:03.580 was called the 1619 Project. It was a project of the New York Times that the New York Times put

00:27:09.540 millions and millions of dollars into promoting. It's now made its way into schools. It was written by

00:27:14.860 Nicole, what was it? Nicole Hannah-Jones, I think is her name. Nicole Hannah-Jones,

00:27:20.860 whose central thesis, the whole thesis of the project, was that a motivating, the motivating

00:27:29.400 factor for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery. And so the true date of America's founding

00:27:36.780 is not 1620 when the pilgrims arrive on the Mayflower. It's not 1776 when the revolution kicks

00:27:44.100 off. No, it's 1619 when the first slave ships arrived on the East Coast. The central thesis

00:27:51.300 was proven wrong. It was debunked. It wasn't even just debunked by those of us on the right.

00:27:57.700 It was debunked by left-wing academic historians who said that this woman who was setting out to

00:28:04.280 rewrite history was just making it up. It was so thoroughly debunked that the New York Times quietly

00:28:10.860 had to rewrite the thesis because not even the New York Times, which lies all the time,

00:28:17.180 could defend it. That's who is rewriting history. The rewriting of history that we are getting

00:28:24.580 constantly from the left, almost exclusively from the left. And so what Ron DeSantis is saying is we

00:28:33.960 don't want those freaks rewriting history. Whoopee, whoopee, you should be thrilled. The freaks who are

00:28:39.180 trying to rewrite history, they're being kicked out of the classrooms. That's good. You should thank

00:28:42.980 Ron DeSantis if Whoopee Goldberg had read any history ever in her life, which I am skeptical.

00:28:49.040 I'm skeptical of that prospect. Speaking of the power of historical narrative, because this is what

00:28:54.560 it's about. When the people who dismiss the culture wars, they say, oh, who cares? Who cares

00:29:00.160 about some stupid story in the New York Times that then goes into some high school and then the kids

00:29:04.280 learn it in their class? What does that matter? Who cares? The left cares. That's why the left is 0.89

00:29:11.460 trying to rewrite history. The left is trying to rewrite history because if you control the past,

00:29:14.560 you control the future. If you control the past and you promote a history that is true,

00:29:23.440 that is our country is basically a good place and we have an obligation to love our country because

00:29:28.260 patriotism is an extension of filial piety and America is an expression of Western civilization.

00:29:33.480 Western civilization is a good thing and it's actually the greatest civilization ever in the

00:29:38.360 world and it's animated by a good and true religion called Christianity and it's created

00:29:43.720 the most beautiful works of art, the greatest achievements that we've ever seen from any

00:29:48.960 human society ever. If you have that view, that is going to affect the way that you interact

00:29:55.300 with your country today, right now, in the present, and it's going to affect the country that

00:30:00.880 you are going to have into the future. If, on the other hand, you have a bunch of freaks,

00:30:06.260 in Whoopi Goldberg's terms, go in and rewrite history and say, actually, America is the most

00:30:10.240 evil place ever and actually, Western civilization, they never did anything good. They only did bad

00:30:14.920 stuff. They're just colonizers and imperialists and all the good stuff they ever got, they just

00:30:20.040 stole it anyway and it's all built on slave labor and the West actually, the West is responsible 1.00

00:30:25.580 for slavery. Even though the West has practiced slavery less than any other civilization ever in

00:30:30.420 the world and today is the only part of the world that has actually abolished slavery, yeah, no, the

00:30:35.800 West is responsible for it. That's why it's so evil and oppressive and terrible. Well, that's going to

00:30:39.360 affect the way you interact with your society today and it's going to determine the sort of society that

00:30:44.660 you're going to have in the future because you're going to hate the society that you've currently got

00:30:48.620 and you don't want to tear down the best stuff about it. That's why people fight over history.

00:30:54.380 That's why the conservatives need to stand firm. That's why Ron DeSantis going in and Glenn Youngkin

00:30:59.360 going in and other people who are fighting this academic battle right now. That's why it matters

00:31:04.420 when they go in and they say, no, we're not going to teach our students this crap because classrooms

00:31:08.500 are like crystal balls and when you look into a classroom, you are seeing your country 20 years

00:31:12.740 into the future. Seven or eight years ago, conservatives love to say, oh, these snowflakes on the

00:31:18.600 college campuses, these woke snowflakes, just wait till they get to the real world. That's going to be

00:31:22.900 a big surprise for them. No, the woke people and the little snowflakes were smarter about this issue

00:31:30.320 because they knew that they were going to get into the real world and they were just going to change

00:31:33.040 the world and change the way that we all had to accommodate them. They were going to demand that we

00:31:39.380 bend our perceptions to their absurd wills. They won. The classroom really was a crystal ball.

00:31:47.020 You see this playing out right now in basic crime stories. This is a really,

00:31:51.480 really disturbing story. I was reading it at the Daily Wire. Bicycling doctor allegedly murdered by

00:31:59.560 man who reportedly muttered about white privilege. California emergency room doctor out for a ride

00:32:05.460 on his mountain bike was allegedly murdered Wednesday by a man who police said struck him from behind with

00:32:11.380 his vehicle, then jumped out and repeatedly stabbed him while, according to a witness, decrying white

00:32:18.980 privilege. This would be funny if it weren't so sad, but think about the absurdity of this.

00:32:26.960 A guy is driving along. I guess it was a black guy who's driving along and presumably it wasn't a

00:32:32.680 white guy. Although these days, I don't know, the white liberals are so self-hating. I guess it could

00:32:35.940 have been, but I assume it was not a white guy. He's driving along. He sees a white guy. He is

00:32:41.920 enraged. I imagine not merely by the color of the guy's skin, though I suppose it could have been that,

00:32:46.680 but maybe he's enraged by the bicyclist riding too slowly. Maybe he's enraged by the fact that this guy

00:32:53.600 gets to go on a bike ride while he's got to be driving and he's working or something. Whatever

00:32:58.760 enraged him, he hits the guy, gets out of the car, and just starts stabbing this man to death.

00:33:06.880 While claiming to be the victim himself, while claiming that the man that he is murdering

00:33:13.920 is, he's the oppressor. He's got all of the privilege. And he, the murderer, he's the oppressed

00:33:23.520 one. He's the one who doesn't have it. Is he stabbing this man? Since it's California,

00:33:28.400 the guy's stabbing him will probably get off with a warning. Vehicle approached a cyclist at an

00:33:33.520 intersection, drove around the victim after hitting him, exited the vehicle, went back and

00:33:38.740 just continued to assault the victim because of white privilege. If you believe, if you believe

00:33:45.480 that, if you believe what you are taught in schools and by the media and by the government

00:33:50.840 and everywhere in the pop culture and by the diversity training at your office and by everything

00:33:57.180 in the culture, if you believe that white people really are not only evil but the source of all 0.94

00:34:02.620 the evil in society, the very reason that society is broken because the true evil that pervades our

00:34:08.420 country is whiteness, structural whiteness that we have to abolish, then because ideas have 0.89

00:34:14.000 consequences, you might take it into your own hands to abolish that whiteness by abolishing the life 1.00

00:34:19.800 of the white person that you run into. And you would feel totally justified. If you are

00:34:26.300 not particularly intelligent, as I can't imagine this murderer is, if you are not particularly

00:34:33.620 thoughtful or well-educated, you could really believe that. As you're murdering someone, you say,

00:34:38.520 wow, I'm doing the right thing. Wow, I stopped this guy from oppressing me with his nice

00:34:44.080 private bicycle ride. That's the consequence of critical race theory. That's the consequence of

00:34:50.420 the critical studies departments in universities and high schools now that tell you that America is

00:34:57.460 an evil country and white people in particular are the problem. And if you're not white, you're 1.00

00:35:01.540 justified in doing whatever you want to victimize the alleged oppressors. That's the consequence of

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00:35:46.440 DAILYWIRE. Good Ranchers, American meat delivered. Speaking of dangerous things, Megan Rapinoe, who I am

00:35:54.620 told as a soccer player, Megan Rapinoe has a message for you. The message is that you need to go out

00:36:02.040 and get your 75th Fauci ouchie. And that message does not come free.

00:36:09.840 Megan here. Megan here.

00:36:12.320 I'm going to get my booster.

00:36:14.920 Get your booster. There she is. She's in the doctor's office.

00:36:20.480 Boop. Okay, she got her shot. Apparently. 1.00

00:36:30.700 I'm in. Boosted. Ready to roll into this year. Let's go.

00:36:36.060 Let's go. Hey, guys. So sad. It's so cringy. First of all, nobody thinks Megan Rapinoe is cool.

00:36:42.740 I assume there are a handful of very sad liberal people who tell themselves that Megan Rapinoe is

00:36:51.220 cool. And so this ad is geared toward them. But even Megan Rapinoe's heart is obviously not in it.

00:36:57.680 So sad the way she's trying to prove. She's like, hey, y'all. Megan, we're going to get our

00:37:03.780 booster. Yeah, that's cool. Let's roll. But it's so half-hearted. No one really believes it.

00:37:10.180 Then you see why it seems so contrived and half-hearted. There's a little line right there

00:37:14.840 at the top of the Instagram post. And it says, paid partnership. That's weird. Paid partnership.

00:37:21.720 Who she partners with? Oh, it tells you in the next line. She's a Pfizer partner.

00:37:26.540 Hashtag Pfizer partner. Like so many others, one of my New Year's resolutions is to focus on my health.

00:37:31.220 And with the tournament down under coming up this year, it's more important than ever that I do so.

00:37:37.100 So that's why I got my updated COVID-19 booster, something I've been meaning to check off my to-do

00:37:41.940 list. Points for prioritizing health. Hashtag I'm boosted. Go to vaccines.gov to check your

00:37:48.740 eligibility and schedule an appointment today. So you know this was just written by the marketing

00:37:55.540 department, either in the government or Pfizer. You know this because she's using hashtags like it's 1.00

00:38:01.560 2008. People don't do that anymore. But anyway, so okay. Hashtag I'm boosted. Hashtag Pfizer partner.

00:38:10.780 Head on over to this government website. I've been meaning to do this. I feel really great.

00:38:16.700 It's so important to go get your booster. You're so lucky to be able to have this injection.

00:38:21.640 If it's so great, and if we're all so lucky to be able to inject ourselves with this experimental drug,

00:38:30.440 why does Pfizer have to pay niche celebrities to promote it?

00:38:38.220 If it's so great, and if COVID is so dangerous and scary that we all were just waiting,

00:38:44.300 oh, I can't wait to get my vaccine. Why does Pfizer, why does the government, why does whoever's

00:38:49.520 footing the bill here, why do they have to pay? Specifically, why do they have to pay this kind

00:38:56.400 of celebrity? You know, they're not calling me. They're not calling Ben. They're not calling Tucker

00:39:05.440 and saying, hey, you want to be a Pfizer partner? Because they know that our audiences are going to

00:39:10.740 say, what the hell is wrong with you people? We're not going to get that Fauci ouchie. No,

00:39:14.100 no clot shot for me. Thank you. No, I'm good. Thanks. But the handful of people who follow

00:39:22.000 Megan Rapinoe, that's the target audience. They know these libs, these libs are at least going to 1.00

00:39:27.580 be open to getting the shot. And then what's so crazy is, is even the libs, even, even the very

00:39:33.460 people who follow Megan Rapinoe are not clamoring to go get the Fauci ouchie. These are the people

00:39:40.560 who should have been the first in the line. And yet, even they are not, even they need to be

00:39:45.320 bribed and bought off to get the shot. I wonder why that is. Probably because it's not a great shot.

00:39:51.540 That's what I would deduce. Speaking of the biomedical security state,

00:39:56.720 the UN is going to take action against me for daring to question the genius of Dr. Fauci

00:40:04.420 and the benevolence of our rulers and the lab coats. The UN Secretary General is calling for

00:40:10.900 global action against mis- and dis-information. We will call for action from everyone with

00:40:18.700 influence on the spread of mis- and dis-information on the internet. Governments, regulators, policy

00:40:25.420 makers, technology companies, the media, civil society. Stop the hate. Set up strong guardrails.

00:40:34.380 Be accountable for language that causes harm. And as part of my report to our common agenda,

00:40:41.660 we are convening all stakeholders around the code of conduct for information integrity on digital

00:40:47.260 platforms. And we will also further strengthen our focus on how mis- and dis-information are impacting

00:40:54.460 progress on global issues, including the climate crisis. The mis- and the dis-information.

00:41:01.740 And of course, mis- and dis-information just means anything that contradicts the narrative

00:41:06.220 of the liberal elite on any given day. So on the day where Dr. Fauci said, don't wear a mask,

00:41:10.680 masks don't work. If you came out and said, you should wear a mask, that would be mis- and dis-information.

00:41:17.580 But then five seconds later, when Dr. Fauci said, actually, you do need to wear masks. Masks are

00:41:21.980 very important. Masks do work. And you contradicted that. And you said, actually, you know, I think

00:41:26.940 masks don't work. That would be mis- and dis-information. The feature that determines

00:41:32.580 what the mis- and dis-information is, is just whatever the liberals are saying at this point.

00:41:37.200 And you might say, well, who cares what the UN is warning about? The UN doesn't have any power.

00:41:42.440 The UN doesn't have a ton of power in itself. But that's why the liberal elites now, who are trying

00:41:47.860 to censor what we can say, they're trying to go around the UN. They're trying to even go around

00:41:52.400 many of the governments. They're certainly trying to go around the people. They're trying to build

00:41:55.880 it into the platforms. This is the purpose of safety by design, which is this proposal of the

00:42:00.020 Australian e-safety commissioner, Julie Grand, who's partnered with the World Economic Forum to get

00:42:05.300 this implemented around the world. Because what safety by design says is, yeah, the governments aren't

00:42:11.340 going to really keep up with all this stuff. So we're just going to embed our woke-ism into the

00:42:16.500 speech platforms themselves. Then you've only got to get it into three or four speech platforms.

00:42:20.820 And all of a sudden, the libs can implement their speech codes, their standards, their taboos,

00:42:27.020 their censorship at the drop of a hat. It'll happen automatically from the platforms. That's

00:42:30.880 happening right now. And very, very powerful people are pushing for it. People more powerful,

00:42:37.620 perhaps even than the US president. President's Day is coming up. We used to call it Washington's

00:42:41.520 birthday because Washington is a great man that we were celebrating. Then we'd call it

00:42:46.180 Washington's and Lincoln's birthday we would celebrate. But now in our modern day and age,

00:42:50.280 we call it President's Day and completely changes the meaning of the holiday because our nation is

00:42:54.600 becoming very uneducated and the libs are transforming our culture. So this President's Day,

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00:44:48.960 Got a lot of work to do over here to save the West. There is a book on this topic.

00:44:55.080 That book is called How to Save the West. It is by a friend of mine, Spencer Clavin,

00:45:02.040 absolutely no relation to Andrew Clavin. I am actually writing a review of this book for the

00:45:08.020 Claremont Review of Books. And when you write a book review, you go through a book and you usually

00:45:15.760 summarize the plot. You give your take on the information presented, the way in which it's

00:45:21.080 presented, the style of the book, the prose, all of that. And then you list the things that the

00:45:25.320 author could have done better. And I've written plenty of book reviews. And I usually find all

00:45:31.580 sorts of problems with books. And I'm not exaggerating. I did not have a criticism of this

00:45:38.380 book. I was actually thinking, do I need to just make up a criticism just so my book review doesn't

00:45:42.980 look too positive. That is how good it is. And we are joined now by my friend, Spencer Clavin.

00:45:49.740 Mr. Clavin, welcome to the show.

00:45:53.400 Michael, my ears were burning hearing you talk about that. I was disappointed that the review

00:45:58.480 wasn't going to have like, you know, the author's ears are too big or something in there. Because I

00:46:02.700 just think that would be good.

00:46:04.320 Well, I was thinking as a little addendum to the review to say, you know, look, my praise of the book,

00:46:09.740 notwithstanding. The author is a big, fat, dumb, stupid idiot. But I don't know. I ran out of words

00:46:15.980 by the end. So it is, I hate to say it, you know, it's men, and especially buddies, especially

00:46:23.800 longtime buddies, it feels very strange to just give a sincere compliment. It feels, that's not how men

00:46:31.920 talk to one another.

00:46:33.500 It's very squishy and weird.

00:46:34.660 It is squishy and weird, and I feel like a big lib. It's just so good. And I actually,

00:46:41.360 I went into the book thinking, okay, now I see a little way that I could criticize it.

00:46:46.340 Because the book opens up, and it's talking about things that are really present. They're very urgent,

00:46:51.420 kind of modern things that you would see in the headlines. And I said, okay, this is going to be

00:46:55.280 one of these, just, okay, Spencer's going to cover the news. And then just very quickly,

00:47:00.880 you tie the things that we're seeing around us right now into Polybius and Plato and Aristotle.

00:47:07.720 And then you come right back up to Kendrick Lamar. And then you come to, and it's so seamless. And

00:47:12.440 it's, you actually finish the book and you say, oh, this guy is not just showing off his scholarship.

00:47:17.840 And oh, this guy is not just riffing on the news. This guy has an urgent message for what to do about

00:47:22.660 a civilization that feels as though it's not only in ruins, but still has some pieces of the marble

00:47:29.020 about to fall down on our heads. Hmm. Hmm. You know, it's really perceptive. And thanks for

00:47:34.640 saying that. This is a book that is based on the radical idea that the past has something to say

00:47:41.360 to the present. And that's basically it. That's the simple claim, which is not so simple anymore,

00:47:46.740 since as you were just talking about earlier in the show, the very idea of Western civilization,

00:47:53.720 that we might be inheritors of a tradition, carriers of a flame that comes down from these

00:47:59.280 kind of two central civilizations, Athens and Jerusalem. This whole notion is portrayed regularly

00:48:06.360 in the news as somehow primitive. It's superstitious. It's maybe kind of racially chauvinist.

00:48:12.000 People make all sorts of accusations. You're a racist. You're a sexist for talking about those

00:48:16.240 dumb old guys. And one of the things that I try to do in this book is just say, look, you know, 0.97

00:48:21.900 every day we wake up, we see some news story that makes us feel like everything's falling apart.

00:48:27.060 And it's really easy to think that all of this is just the result of, you know, rapidly accelerating

00:48:32.660 technology and science has transformed the world. And of course, those things may be true. But what

00:48:38.080 the book is about is a lot of the questions that we're coming up against are actually extremely

00:48:42.400 fundamental. They've been with humanity basically ever since we were on this planet. And there are some

00:48:49.060 really rich answers to these questions that are available from the tradition if you'll just look

00:48:55.060 and, you know, they do everything they can to try and convince you not to do that. They tell you that

00:49:00.820 these books are outdated, that they're bad, that they're evil, that Aristotle was some kind of, you

00:49:04.980 know, chauvinist, racist, whatever, all to prevent you from understanding that the answers to questions

00:49:11.280 like, why am I here? What's my place in the universe? What's a human being? These questions that we're

00:49:16.940 grappling with now, you will find better, saner, clearer, more humane answers in some of these

00:49:22.500 texts that the book deals with than you will from like Dr. Fauci and whatever modern, you know,

00:49:28.680 UN guru is supposed to be in charge of us today. So that's exactly the point of the book. It's just

00:49:34.200 as you said. You know, I've got about 30 seconds left in the main portion of the show for the

00:49:39.420 hoi polloi out there who have not yet gone over to dailywire.com slash Knowles, used code Knowles

00:49:43.740 and subscribed. You say in the subtitle, it's ancient wisdom for five modern crises.

00:49:49.700 What are the modern crises? I'll list them off and then I'll say a little bit about them. The

00:49:54.600 first is the crisis of reality. Is anything true or false? The second is the crisis of the body. Do

00:50:00.640 our unique human forms have anything to say about us or should they just be replaced, re-engineered,

00:50:06.800 transformed with gender surgery? The third is the crisis of meaning. Can we really believe that

00:50:12.620 anything has any meaning beyond just the mere fact of evolution and replication? And this leads

00:50:18.360 directly into the deepest crisis, which I think is the crisis of religion. Can we believe in a 0.64

00:50:23.420 creator God that has an interest in us? That's the most important question before us. And I answer it

00:50:28.740 in the affirmative. Yes, we can before turning to the crisis of the regime, which is the most

00:50:33.100 immediate one. What's going on in America? What's going to happen to us? And can we survive?

00:50:38.180 I want you to give us, I want you to give us the answers to that, but I don't want you to give

00:50:42.940 it to the hoi polloi, these freeloaders who show up. I appreciate that they show up, but they don't

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 08, 2023

Ep. 1179 - Biden's Trainwreck State Of The Union

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