Ep. 1179 - Biden's Trainwreck State Of The Union
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
171.34598
Summary
Joe Biden's State of the Union speech was a big win for the Democrats, but it was also a disaster for the economy and the middle class. He didn't fix anything, and in fact, he only made things worse.
Transcript
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.
00:00:23.320
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.
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
00:03:13.140
terrible. It's awful. One way, when you get stuck with a fee that you don't know how you're going
00:03:17.860
to pay for it, one way you could do it is if you have your wealth diversified into really stable
00:03:24.420
investments such as gold. That's why you got to check out Birch Gold. Right now, text Knowles to
00:03:28.880
98-98-98. The U.S. blew through $31.4 trillion in its debt ceiling last month, and still the White
00:03:38.480
House refuses to reduce spending. If you're worried about the future of this nation's economy,
00:03:43.080
you need to consider diversifying into gold with Birch Gold. Birch Gold makes it easy to convert an
00:03:48.680
IRA or 401k into an IRA in precious metals. Text Knowles right now to 98-98-98 to claim your free info
00:03:56.600
kit on gold and then talk to one of their precious metals specialists. I have really enjoyed investing
00:04:02.020
in precious metals in my life. I think it's served me very well. With an A-plus rating with the Better
00:04:08.540
Business Bureau, thousands of happy customers, and countless five-star reviews, you can trust
00:04:12.400
Birch Gold to help protect your savings, and you will see why conservatives tend to like investing in
00:04:18.240
precious metals and gold specifically. Text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 98-98-98 and protect yourself
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
00:07:14.300
important phrase, is near-record unemployment for blacks and Hispanics, right? Who had the record
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
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,
00:09:26.260
alien, vagrant in San Francisco, a city that hasn't been governed by Republicans since the Stone Age.
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?
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
00:11:51.560
school? Gay porn in the elementary school library? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares?
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
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
00:12:41.780
irritate me in politics, I know I need to calm down, practice patience, kiss it up, as people used to
00:12:51.380
say. One great way to do that is with Hallow. Right now, go to Hallow.com slash Knowles. Seems like
00:12:57.660
for Lent this year, the libs are giving up their morals and any common sense. You and I are going to
00:13:02.760
combat that with a solid foundation in our faith, values, and fasting. Ash Wednesday is coming up on
00:13:09.040
February 22nd. There is no better time than now to start building a daily habit of prayer and
00:13:13.940
meditation with Hallow. Hallow is the number one Christian prayer app and the number one Catholic
00:13:18.680
app in the world. Pray every single day leading up to Easter with world famous Catholics and Protestants
00:13:25.040
alike. Jim Caviezel, Father Mike Schmitz, even Mark Wahlberg. Dive deep into scripture and the second
00:13:32.260
most read Christian book of all time, The Imitation of Christ. You will learn how to become a better
00:13:37.060
individual in spite of today's broken world. Through prayer, fasting, and giving, Hallow will
00:13:42.660
help guide you on your journey to become more like Christ. Download Hallow at Hallow.com slash Knowles
00:13:49.080
and get an exclusive three months for free, which will carry you through Lent and Easter. That is
00:13:54.220
three months free, absolutely free, at Hallow.com slash Knowles. The Republicans gave a second State of
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:23:45.200
to do to give himself the best chance of winning the nomination. These are big boys. We're 16 months
00:23:49.720
out from the RNC. It's okay. It's okay. All right. We have to be prepared for an intense
00:23:57.360
primary. You need to be prepared in case supply chains go down and you can't access your medicine.
00:24:03.240
That's why you got to go check out Jace Medical right now. Go to Jace Medical, J A S E medical.com
00:24:09.420
enter code Knowles. If the past couple of years has taught you anything at all, it is that in a crisis
00:24:14.080
like a global pandemic or a natural disaster, even the basics can be hard to come by.
00:24:18.920
You've got to be prepared for anything. Jace Medical is here to help. Jace Medical helps
00:24:24.640
you get a long-term supply of prescription meds. Their mission is to empower you to be better
00:24:30.240
medically prepared. A great way to start preparing is with the Jace case, a pack of five different
00:24:36.520
courses of antibiotics that you can use to treat a whole host of bacterial illnesses, basic stuff,
00:24:42.440
UTIs, respiratory infections, sinusitis, skin infections, and more. All you have to do is fill
00:24:48.040
out a simple online form, and in some cases jump on a call with one of their board-certified
00:24:52.980
physicians. From there, you can ask your physician treatment-related questions on an ongoing basis.
00:24:58.340
I'll make this really blunt, okay? If China invades Taiwan, the supply chain is getting cut off.
00:25:04.760
If certain very possible, really maybe likely events happen in the world, supply chain is going to be
00:25:10.520
seriously affected. Get that peace of mind that even in the worst case, you have got a Jace case.
00:25:16.980
I want you to be prepared for anything. Be like the Knowles family. Go to jacemedical.com,
00:25:21.120
enter code Knowles at checkout for a discount on your order. That is jacemedical.com, promo code Knowles.
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:34:14.000
consequences, you might take it into your own hands to abolish that whiteness by abolishing the life
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
00:35:01.540
justified in doing whatever you want to victimize the alleged oppressors. That's the consequence of
00:35:08.540
it. Talk about freaks. Those are the freaks. Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed
00:35:13.960
beef sold in U.S. grocery stores is imported? That's why I buy all my meat from GoodRanchers.com
00:35:19.740
instead. Good Ranchers products are 100% born, raised, and harvested right here in the USA from
00:35:24.980
local family farms. Plus, there's no antibiotics ever, no added hormones, and no seed oils. Just one
00:35:31.080
simple ingredient. That's meat. Best of all, Good Ranchers delivers straight to your door for added
00:35:35.580
convenience. So lock in a secure supply of American meat today. Subscribe now at GoodRanchers.com and get
00:35:40.960
free meat for life and $40 off with code DAILYWIRE. That's $40 off and free meat for life with code
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.
00:36:14.920
Get your booster. There she is. She's in the doctor's office.
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
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
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,
00:43:00.620
maybe you should do something about it. Daily Wire is running our President's for Sale sale.
00:43:06.900
Talking about our current president. 40% off new annual memberships. The big guy got 10%.
00:43:11.860
We're giving you 40%. Get access to the world of Daily Wire Plus with fearless documentaries,
00:43:16.820
gripping movies, Dennis Prager's master's program, and the entire library of Dr. Jordan Peterson's
00:43:21.820
work, including new productions, Exodus, Logos and Literacy, On Marriage, all available to watch
00:43:27.440
right now, coming down the pipeline to a TV or a laptop near you. New episodes of Ben Shapiro's The
00:43:32.940
Search, Exodus Part 2, our much anticipated DW Kids content, and Pendragon later this year.
00:43:38.820
To sweeten the deal like ice cream, we are also giving you up to 40% off select items in the Daily
00:43:45.300
Wire shop. Take advantage of our President's for Sale sale today. You know he would. Go to
00:43:51.760
dailywire.com slash subscribe to become a member. That's dailywire.com slash subscribe. And in case
00:43:56.660
you missed it this past weekend, I sat down for another episode of Yes or No, the internet's greatest
00:44:01.660
interview and game show with special guest Michael Malice. It was great sitting down with Michael,
00:44:06.740
a great guy with a great name. It was a riveting episode. Don't forget, you can bring the fun home
00:44:11.020
with Yes or No, the game. It's available right now for pre-order at dailywire.com slash shop.
00:44:17.240
It sold out when we ordered our first run of I think 1,000 games. It sold out fast. There's a new
00:44:22.020
run. We've ordered many multiples of that. It's going to sell out again. So pre-order. I think there
00:44:26.840
are still copies available. Pre-order right now. It's filled with harmful and conspiracy content.
00:44:31.400
Yes or No tests your knowledge of those closest to you. Do you really know your friends and family?
00:44:37.680
Do they really know you? Get to the bottom of it all, including your glass with Yes or No,
00:44:42.900
the game. Head on over to dailywire.com slash shop to secure yours today.
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.
00:45:53.400
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
00:46:04.320
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
00:46:34.660
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,
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
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
00:50:50.540
want to fork over their hard-earned money because I don't know, they want to go buy eggs or something
00:50:55.280
like that, which is impossible. You're never going to afford eggs these days. If you want to watch the
00:51:00.560
answers and if you want to come chat with us over the member block, you've got to head over to
00:51:04.680
dailywire.com slash Knowles. Use code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.