The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1189 - Witches Lead The Witch Hunt Of Donald Trump

00:00:00.000 It has been 2,809 days since Donald Trump first descended that golden escalator

00:00:08.240 and announced his bid for president. And the libs are still trying to lock him up

00:00:14.620 for something, anything. First, they spied on his campaign. When that turned up nothing,

00:00:22.700 they launched a special counsel investigation to nab him for allegedly colluding with the Russians.

00:00:27.960 When that didn't work, they impeached him for allegedly colluding with the Ukrainians.

00:00:34.480 When that didn't work, they impeached him again for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.

00:00:40.740 When that didn't work, they impaneled a grand jury in Georgia to investigate him for allegedly

00:00:47.640 pressuring the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, to challenge the results of the

00:00:53.500 election. That is where we are now. And here is the foreman of that grand jury, Emily Coors,

00:01:00.300 explaining on national television what she hopes will come of the investigation.

00:01:06.220 After everything that you've seen, what would your reaction be if the DA decides against

00:01:10.380 bringing any charges after what you've seen?

00:01:12.660 I will be sad if nothing happens. Like that's, that's about my only request there is, is for

00:01:20.760 something to happen. I don't necessarily know what it is. I'm not the legal expert. I'm not the judge.

00:01:27.560 I'm not the lawyers. But I, I will be frustrated if nothing happens. This was too much, too much

00:01:35.300 information, too much of my time, too much of everyone's time, too much of their time, too much

00:01:41.640 argument in, in court about getting people to appear before us. There was just too much for this

00:01:47.580 to just be, oh, okay, we're good. Bye. And if it was just a perjury charge or perjury charges,

00:01:54.980 would that be acceptable to you? That's fine. I will be happy as long as something happens.

00:02:00.680 Ha ha ha. Ha ha. Something. Anything. It's just taken up so much time and effort, not just for her,

00:02:11.360 for all the libs who have spent now seven years trying to get this guy, each time being foiled

00:02:18.980 like Wile E. Coyote. And after this grand jury foreman's extremely imprudent media tour, which could

00:02:26.240 result in the whole shebang being tossed out of court, it looks as though roadrunner Donald

00:02:31.160 has managed to avoid yet another Acme anvil. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:05:27.640 slash offer for details. What is the Georgia grand jury even about? I had to remind myself

00:05:34.260 of this yesterday. I said, wait, hold on. They got him now. They're so close to getting Trump

00:05:38.700 again for something. And then, ah, foiled again at the last moment by this eccentric grand jury

00:05:44.440 foreman. But wait, what are they getting him for now? And the grand jury in Georgia is about a phone

00:05:51.120 call on January 2nd, 2021. So just after the 2020 election, it's an hour long conference call

00:05:58.740 that then president Donald Trump had with Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.

00:06:05.240 And according to the reporting, it was Trump pressuring the secretary of state to cheat,

00:06:11.820 to change the results of the election, to hand it to Trump when Biden really won it. That's not

00:06:16.700 what happened. That's not even if you look at the details of what the liberals say about this phone

00:06:21.760 call. That's not what they say happened. What the liberals say about this phone call,

00:06:26.040 we have the transcript of it, is they say that Donald Trump said this.

00:06:31.300 What I want is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have.

00:06:40.440 The margin of defeat at that point was 11,779 votes, which is one more than we have. Now,

00:06:47.540 if the sentence ended there, you might say, okay, well, maybe he's pressuring the Georgia

00:06:52.680 secretary of state to just make up a number and add it to Trump's tally to steal the election. 1.00

00:06:57.660 But that's not where the sentence ends. He says, I just want to find 11,780 votes,

00:07:03.100 which is one more than we have because we won the state. He's saying we won the state

00:07:10.340 and the tally doesn't reflect that. Now you might disagree. You might say Trump is delusional. You

00:07:16.000 might say there were no shenanigans in Georgia. You might say that there were no pipes bursting in

00:07:19.240 the middle of the night and that the poll watchers were watching everything and it didn't take a very

00:07:23.340 long time to count those ballots. And there weren't all sorts of shenanigans in Georgia that it would

00:07:27.940 appear that there were. I certainly think there were a lot of shenanigans in Georgia, but you might say,

00:07:31.800 oh, I totally disagree with Trump. That's not the point. The point is what was Trump saying on the

00:07:37.100 phone call? Trump was saying we won the state and I want the tally to reflect that. That's a very

00:07:41.660 different thing than saying we lost the state, but I want you to cheat and pretend that we won it.

00:07:45.800 So the whole non-traversy, I think, is laughable to begin with. And now we are seeing just how laughable

00:07:53.880 it is when this grand jury foreman is exposing it as a witch hunt. This woman, Emily Coors,

00:07:59.900 who is the top juror now on this grand jury, she divulged some information that she probably

00:08:08.080 shouldn't have, not just about Trump, but about all sorts of indictments that may or may not come down.

00:08:13.900 Is it, would you say when it comes to, there are indictments recommended, of course. Is it more than

00:08:20.280 12 people? Is it more than 20 people?

00:08:24.960 I think if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that

00:08:30.620 got cut out. Allow for spacing. It's not a short list.

00:08:36.420 Not a short list. Did you personally want to hear from the former president?

00:08:41.480 I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the

00:08:45.460 former president because I got to swear everybody in. And so I thought it'd be really cool to get

00:08:49.920 60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, do you solemnly swear?

00:08:55.080 And me getting to swear him in, I just, I kind of just thought that would be an awesome moment.

00:08:58.980 Uh-huh. It's not a short list. She's talking about all sorts of things that she should not

00:09:05.560 be talking about. She's talking about witnesses that they saw. She's, she's describing the

00:09:11.740 witnesses. She said, oh, I found some of them credible. Some of them I found funny saying all

00:09:15.000 sorts of things she shouldn't say. And then what's that thing? I just really want to be able to swear

00:09:19.380 in Trump. Wouldn't that be awesome? Wouldn't that be so awesome? This might destroy the

00:09:28.700 entire prosecution case against all of these people. They might have to throw the whole thing

00:09:32.920 out. And then here's the kicker on top of it. The kicker on top, I got to give credit to Jack

00:09:36.600 Posobiec for this. Jack found a Pinterest account that would appear to belong to this woman.

00:09:43.940 And the Pinterest account includes different Pinterest boards about witchcraft. So there's one

00:09:51.740 about Wicca, witchcraft, paganism, all sorts of occult, weird spiritualist practices, pages and

00:10:00.360 pages of this, which means because all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance direction which

00:10:08.160 thou canst not see. What that means is this is a literal witch hunt. And it's not a witch hunt in

00:10:15.540 the sense that people are hunting witches. It's a witch hunt in the sense that witches are hunting

00:10:20.020 Donald Trump. It's an actual, you can't even, if you, if a Hollywood script writer turns this into

00:10:27.020 a producer, the producer would reject it for being too outrageous and too on the nose.

00:10:31.960 They would say, oh no, this grand jury foreman character, this is too absurd. This would never

00:10:35.760 really happen. They would never say these things on national television. She couldn't be an actual

00:10:40.940 witch. No, come on. But that is, that is what's happening. It would appear to be a literal witch hunt,

00:10:47.700 which it always has been. Trump, for his part, is looking great. Trump yesterday went to East

00:10:54.900 Palestine, Ohio. Pete Buttigieg hasn't been there. Joe Biden hasn't been there. Joe Biden's been too

00:10:59.480 busy palling around with his buddy Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. So he hasn't had time to go

00:11:03.140 visit his own citizens in Ohio after a train derailment poisoned the air and the water in that

00:11:09.260 town. That's flyover country. Biden's not going to make it there. So Trump shows up and Trump makes a

00:11:16.180 few different stops in the town. One of which, my favorite of which, is in a McDonald's.

00:11:22.880 Hello, everybody. That's a nice, beautiful looking group of people.

00:11:26.820 So I know this menu better than you do. I probably know it better than anybody in here.

00:11:33.020 Why are you visiting today? Well, we brought a lot of people with us. And more importantly,

00:11:37.080 we brought the federal government with us because when they heard I was coming,

00:11:41.360 they all came. They weren't going to come. They were going to leave you abandoned. And now they're

00:11:45.560 not. The owner over here, he saw that. I helped out all the responders and everything the first

00:11:50.640 week. I was out here making egg McMuffins myself Saturday morning. You did a good job. With these

00:11:55.240 guys. He did a good job. So give us a nice array of stuff. Take care of the people and I'll see you

00:12:01.300 later. Okay. Thank you all. Can I get a picture with you?

00:12:04.280 This is vintage, perfect Trump. This is the best version of Trump. When Trump shows up to a

00:12:13.740 McDonald's and he says, listen, great to be with you all. I love being here. I know this menu better

00:12:19.820 than you workers do. That's a great moment because it's believable. It's sincere. The guy actually loves

00:12:26.520 McDonald's. Something that people really like about Trump, a lot of the Republican establishment

00:12:30.020 never understood this. They say, how is it that these working class people like this billionaire

00:12:34.600 who was born into wealth and who's been a playboy, billionaire his whole life? Because Donald Trump's

00:12:42.420 tastes are the tastes of regular people. Donald Trump's comportment behavior is the behavior of

00:12:51.300 regular people. Donald Trump's priorities are the priorities of regular people. That's why.

00:12:56.680 Yes, he was born into a lot of wealth. The man actually loves McDonald's and probably knows

00:13:03.820 McDonald's menu better than most of the workers of that franchise. Yes, Donald Trump was born into

00:13:09.880 wealth and into high society. But for one, he wasn't exactly accepted by the elite society in New York.

00:13:18.720 But even beyond that, his priorities, his affections, his political vision is much closer to the political

00:13:25.160 vision of blue collar workers in the Rust Belt than it is to some guy working at a think tank in Washington,

00:13:30.560 D.C. You see that on trade. You see that on immigration. You see that on national identity. You see that on

00:13:35.740 everything. OK, so if Joe Biden showed up here, said, I'll have a give me a triple double large Mac, please.

00:13:43.180 You wouldn't believe you just think Joe Biden. This guy doesn't go to McDonald's. But Trump shows up because,

00:13:46.880 hey, everybody, we're going to have a great meal at McDonald's. That it brings you something

00:13:52.120 in the political scene that you don't see very much, which is it's not just some policy. It's not

00:13:57.940 just some photo op. It's it's thumos. It's spiritedness. It's a it's a sense that this guy.

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00:15:29.960 slash Knowles. Donald Trump did not show up to East Palestine empty-handed. Donald Trump also

00:15:35.880 gave a big rally, and he brought a lot of supplies, and he brought a lot of water, as he explained in

00:15:40.900 great detail. Especially thanks some of the incredible people that helped us, because we're

00:15:48.260 bringing thousands of bottles of water, Trump water, actually, most of it. Some of it we had to go to a

00:15:54.840 much lesser quality water. You want to get those Trump bottles, I think, more than anybody else.

00:16:00.880 But we're bringing a lot of water. Love it. This again, the liberals just don't know how to

00:16:07.860 interpret this. There were liberals freaking out on social media. They said, Donald Trump,

00:16:11.980 he's there shilling his water. How shameless is he? He's trying. No, he's not. He's not selling his 0.98

00:16:16.960 water. He's not selling it to the citizens of East Palestine. I don't think he sells it, period.

00:16:21.840 I don't think you can go to a grocery store and buy Trump water. Why is he talking about Trump

00:16:26.980 water? I'm sure that's just the water he picked up at his hotels and golf clubs and Mar-a-Lago.

00:16:32.920 So he happened to have that water, and he loaded it on, but it wasn't enough compared to what they

00:16:37.280 wanted to bring, so they brought some other water too. And then Trump goes in, and he makes a joke

00:16:41.620 about it. And it's funny, and everybody gets the joke, except for the humorless elite liberals who

00:16:48.780 are still plotting out like Wile E. Coyote had to drop the next piano on his head until the road

00:16:52.540 runner runs away too fast. Look, we brought a lot of water. Brought a lot of Trump water,

00:16:56.880 actually. That's the water you want to get. That's the good water. We brought some much

00:16:59.580 lesser quality water. That's still the water that he brought, very generously, donated it to

00:17:04.380 East Palestine. But he's just, I was really, really gratified to see this in East Palestine.

00:17:11.860 One, because he actually is calling attention to it. When they say, what else did you bring? He said,

00:17:16.180 I brought the federal government, is what I brought, because no one was paying attention

00:17:18.600 to this. And then I'm showing up, and now Biden has to show up, which is good. And that's something

00:17:23.400 that Trump has brought to politics ever since he came down that golden escalator. So I'm glad to see

00:17:27.000 that. The other thing I'm glad to see is, it feels like he's kind of getting his mojo back.

00:17:32.900 He, at his announcement at Mar-a-Lago, it was kind of weak sauce. Some of the appearances he's

00:17:38.340 been making recently have been just kind of bland. They haven't had that Trump magic. But

00:17:44.120 this was a really great political event. It was good for the citizens. It was good for Trump's

00:17:51.020 campaign. It presented him as himself, as this American original. He's the guy who's going to

00:17:58.160 show up and donate a lot of supplies, because he's got a lot of money. He's got more money than most of

00:18:01.520 the candidates in the race, at least. Maybe all of them. He's going to tell some jokes. He's going to

00:18:06.580 lift some people's spirits. And he's going to seem paradoxically like one of them. There is not one

00:18:14.780 candidate in the GOP field who likes McDonald's more than Donald Trump. And that is a powerful

00:18:20.920 political tool. It seems trivial, but that's a powerful political tool. Speaking of the water

00:18:31.000 around East Palestine, a grocery chain has pulled water that happens to be bottled near East Palestine.

00:18:37.660 And you might say, why are they doing that, Michael? We've been told by all the officials

00:18:40.880 that the water is totally fine. Remember, the EPA administrator comes in and says, that water around

00:18:45.380 East Palestine, you know, where they just dumped a gazillion gallons of chemicals that are extremely

00:18:49.500 toxic and some of which were used as poison gases in World War I? Yeah, no, it's fine. Drink the water.

00:18:54.320 You're all good. Then what happens? J.D. Vance, the Republican senator, shows up. He's looking at

00:19:00.100 some water. He throws a rock in a creek. And then everything looks like an oily rainbow. There are

00:19:05.440 clearly so many chemicals in the water. So this grocery store chain, Giant Eagle, is pulling from

00:19:12.220 its shelves bottled water sourced from a facility near East Palestine, Ohio. They say, out of an abundance

00:19:18.020 of caution, Giant Eagle has made the decision to remove all gallon size or greater Giant Eagle brand

00:19:23.700 spring water product sourced from Salineville facility. That's right near East Palestine.

00:19:29.360 Until further notice, until we continue to evaluate ongoing testing and potential impacts to the

00:19:34.020 spring source. The water is obviously poisoned. This is not out of an abundance of caution. This is

00:19:39.260 out of the very bare minimum of caution. Of course, people don't want to buy it. The grocery store

00:19:44.540 chain doesn't want to be on the hook if people get poisoned from this stuff. So they're pulling it.

00:19:48.460 Absolutely right. Yes, this contradicts what we've been told by the EPA administrator.

00:19:53.580 But look at people's behavior. People's behavior is going to tell you very often a lot more than

00:19:59.020 their words are. All the liberal politicians say the water is totally safe. The air is totally safe.

00:20:05.300 But they're not going to show up, are they? They haven't made it there yet to East Palestine.

00:20:09.160 They haven't breathed that air in the two weeks after the crash, three weeks now.

00:20:12.700 They haven't had that water to drink. The Ohio senator, the Democrat Ohio senator,

00:20:17.840 was interviewed on TV. And he was asked, Sherrod Brown, will you and the other officials in this

00:20:24.140 town drink the water? He evaded the question. No, they're not going to drink the water. They think

00:20:27.680 it's poison. They might tell you they don't think that, but look at their behavior. They might tell

00:20:33.500 you it's not poison. Well, look at the behavior of the grocery store. What does that tell you? It means

00:20:37.500 you can't take what these people say at face value. You've got to conduct your own research,

00:20:40.840 which is something that elite liberals are really upset about. They are really upset that in the

00:20:49.000 last few years specifically, you have been thinking for yourself, conducting your own research, which

00:20:54.980 is very easy to do. Now you can just pull up Google and you can find credible sources and you can look

00:21:00.720 with your own two eyes and see that reality is contradicting what the liberals tell you. And they

00:21:05.120 don't like that. Sam Harris, who is a typical elite liberal, he is an archetype for almost. He is an

00:21:16.500 atheist, a at least self-styled intellectual, a media figure, a person who embraces the mantle of science.

00:21:30.340 He says, he just posted this to his Instagram account. During the pandemic, we witnessed the

00:21:37.300 birth of a new religion of contrarianism and conspiracy thinking. The first sacrament of

00:21:43.020 which is to do your own research. The problem is that very few people are qualified to do this

00:21:48.240 research. And the result is a society driven by strongly held unfounded opinions on everything from

00:21:53.760 vaccine safety to the war in Ukraine. Do your own research. You people, you're not qualified to do

00:22:01.620 your own research. You have to leave that to Dr. Fauci. He gets everything right. Do your own

00:22:06.260 research. You have to leave that to the EPA administrator. They get everything right, don't

00:22:09.080 they? No? Well, what have they gotten wrong recently? Okay, maybe they were wrong about the

00:22:17.780 severity of COVID and the origin of COVID and the efficacy of the masks and the vaccines. We'll get

00:22:23.740 to that in just one second. And maybe they not only were wrong, maybe they actually lied to you in some

00:22:29.220 cases. And maybe they don't even know the difference between men and women. And maybe they're wrong about

00:22:33.720 a lot of things. But you should not do your own research. This is a paradox of liberalism.

00:22:40.940 And when I say liberalism, I don't just mean modern leftist progressive. I mean kind of the whole

00:22:46.740 liberal tradition going back to classical liberalism. The whole political ideology that's

00:22:53.860 dominated in the last three, four hundred years. The paradox is this. Liberalism tells you to reject

00:23:00.540 tradition, reject prejudice, reject received opinion. Think for yourself.

00:23:07.960 We're not going to teach you what to think, only how to think. You need to be radically skeptical.

00:23:13.600 You need to examine everything yourself. Don't take anything by authority or face value. Reject

00:23:18.620 tradition. Think for yourself. And also, what the liberals will tell you is don't think for yourself.

00:23:25.180 You're not qualified to do it. The paradox here is that when you reject tradition, and when you think

00:23:31.720 that you can know everything that there is to know only through your unfettered reason,

00:23:36.160 you will end up losing both tradition and reason. You will not have tradition to guide you. You'll

00:23:44.280 lose that, and you won't be able to think for yourself. The conservatives offer an alternative

00:23:50.220 to that. The conservatives say don't reject tradition. Don't reject prejudice. Don't reject

00:23:54.640 receive opinion. Actually, the people who came before you for the thousands of years of your

00:24:01.000 tradition, maybe their accumulated wisdom might be a little more interesting than the random thought

00:24:08.800 you had last night at two in the morning. Maybe there's something you can learn from all of the

00:24:13.980 generations going back millennia, from all of the wisdom accumulated over the ages. And then think for

00:24:21.040 yourself. Apply all of that wisdom, all of that knowledge, and use your own faculties of reason

00:24:27.520 there. The paradox of liberalism is that the liberals who say that they are the most independent

00:24:33.040 thinkers in the world are the least likely people to think for themselves. And this is not just some

00:24:39.420 cheap political shot that I, a conservative, am making about them. Sam Harris, a leading public

00:24:45.000 liberal, is telling you that's what liberalism says. Sam Harris is admitting that for most people,

00:24:52.800 they cannot think for themselves. That's his view as a liberal. That's not my view as a conservative.

00:24:59.740 And if you look at the liberals who insisted follow Fauci, follow the EPA, follow the WHO,

00:25:05.120 follow, follow, follow for the last three years, and you look at the tinfoil hat conservative,

00:25:09.560 conspiracy theorist contrarians, who's been more right? The conservatives, the contrarians,

00:25:15.320 the conspiracy theorist, crazy tinfoil hat people have been right statistically 100% of the time.

00:25:21.820 And those liberal geniuses following Sam Harris and the rest of these people have been wrong

00:25:28.920 statistically 100% of the time in recent years. Speaking of conspiracy theories,

00:25:38.440 let's just examine a couple of those. Remember, and this speaks to exactly what Sam Harris was talking

00:25:45.020 about. They, these contrarian conspiracists, they question the science on vaccines. These

00:25:53.320 contrarian conspiracists, they question the science on masks. Okay. New study out from George Mason.

00:25:59.900 Examining the efficacy of vaccine mandates citywide. I'm just quoting from the study.

00:26:06.120 You can bleep me if you want to, social media platforms, but this is just what the study says.

00:26:11.400 This is the science. I'm following it. These mandates, the vaccine mandates, imposed severe

00:26:17.760 restrictions on the lives of many citizens and business owners, yet we find no evidence that the

00:26:22.680 mandates were effective in their intended goals of reducing COVID-19 cases and deaths.

00:26:28.840 Researchers evaluated New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco,

00:26:34.660 Seattle, and Washington, D.C. We're talking about a lot of citywide vaccine mandates, rather.

00:26:41.620 They say, we find no evidence that the announcement or implementation of indoor vaccine mandates in the

00:26:48.240 cities listed had any significant effect on vaccine uptake, COVID-19 cases, or COVID-19 deaths. And this

00:26:55.480 is largely consistent for all U.S. cities that implemented the mandate. That's just the vaccine

00:27:03.080 mandates. The vaccine mandates that when they came down, some of us, I'm not, listen, I'm not,

00:27:10.240 I'm not boasting, I'm not, you know how much I hate to say I told you so, but some of us said,

00:27:16.140 this is bogus, this is ridiculous, don't do this, Fauci's terrible, he's wrong about everything, 0.95

00:27:21.220 don't listen to him. And then all the really fancy people, all the Sam Harris people said, 0.98

00:27:27.060 no, you've got to follow the Fauci people. Okay. We were totally right. We were 100% completely

00:27:34.480 right about the efficacy of these vaccine mandate policies. Furthermore, what about the masks? I

00:27:39.700 always made fun of the masks. All the liberals loved the masks. Many conservatives, self-styled

00:27:45.960 conservatives loved the masks. All the liberals loved the vaccines. Even many self-styled conservatives

00:27:51.400 loved the vaccines. I thought the vaccines were bogus from day one. And I thought the masks were

00:27:58.240 especially bogus from day one. And so, okay, we've now done away with the vaccine mandates. So thank

00:28:04.300 you, George Mason University. How about the mask mandates? Well, I've got the New York Times,

00:28:09.400 no less a liberal source than the New York Times headline, the mask mandates did nothing.

00:28:16.240 Will any lessons be learned? The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies

00:28:22.140 conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, including

00:28:26.040 COVID-19, was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford

00:28:30.760 epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous. Quote, there is just no evidence that they,

00:28:39.180 masks, make any difference. Full stop. But wait, hold on. What about N95?

00:28:46.240 N95 masks, as opposed to lower quality surgical or cloth masks. Makes no difference. None of it.

00:28:54.900 End quote. Completely bogus, as we knew. You had to put your little kids in the masks if you sent

00:29:02.400 them to school or daycare. If you flew on airplanes, you had to wear the masks until very, very recently.

00:29:08.480 Until a Trump-appointed judge shot the whole thing down single-handedly. Otherwise, the mask mandates

00:29:14.740 would probably still be in place. You may have lost your job because of the vaccine mandate.

00:29:20.840 You may have, I'm sure you know somebody who lost a job. Maybe you had to leave the service,

00:29:27.680 the military service, public health service. Maybe your life was really, really wrecked by the liberals

00:29:35.280 who were, they're so smart. And they have so much education. And they have such white lab coats.

00:29:43.140 And your crazy conspiracy theorist, tinfoil hat wearing, three-tooth having, uneducated, 1.00

00:29:53.620 rube, irredeemable, deplorable idiot uncle was much more correct about all of it. 1.00

00:29:59.780 All of it. What do we do in these cases? We have to spike the football. I remember I said, 1.00

00:30:08.380 I hate to say I told you so. In this case, we really have to love to say we told you so.

00:30:12.940 We have to spike the football so hard on all of these studies. We have to spike the football in

00:30:18.320 front of the science simps. We have to spike the football so hard in front of Sam Harris, who

00:30:25.500 seems like an amiable enough guy, but who is just wrong about everything. I'm not sure there is a

00:30:31.220 person walking around today more wrong about everything than Sam Harris. Even though Sam Harris,

00:30:37.760 he's clubbable, he sounds erudite, he's so reasonable sounding, but he's not. He's one of the

00:30:43.740 least reasonable people in the country. All of these, all these really nice erudite, institutional,

00:30:49.840 liberal people. They're the ones who led this country off a cliff for three years. You should

00:30:58.140 never let them forget it. If you've got to pick a side, politics is about groups of people. It's about

00:31:05.040 people. It's the art of inclusion. Let's not forget. Which side are you going to be on? The really

00:31:10.800 fancy elite people or the people inside McDonald's in East Palestine, Ohio, whose government has

00:31:17.500 essentially tried to ignore them? Not forgotten about them, but just desperately trying to ignore

00:31:21.820 them. Which side are you on? I'm on the side of those people in that McDonald's in East Palestine, 0.93

00:31:28.320 Ohio. Not just because it's good for politics, not just because it's a helpful strategy for

00:31:33.640 Republicans to win, but because those people have it more correct. They are right about more things

00:31:39.360 than the liberal elites who run our country.

00:31:41.560 That's the way it goes. The medical science, all the expert people, they're wrong about a lot.

00:31:52.820 You want to talk about dubious medical science in the UK, the largest pediatric gender clinic 1.00

00:31:57.620 is under fire right now because it ignored a psychological problem very closely associated

00:32:04.680 with transgenderism. New book out, it's called Time to Think, The Inside Story of the Collapse of 1.00

00:32:09.920 the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children by BBC Newsnight journalist Hannah Barnes alleges that

00:32:17.440 Tavistock, which we've reported on in this show before, it was one of the most notorious

00:32:21.900 transing the kids centers in the UK, that the Tavistock Clinic, which is an NHS facility,

00:32:29.440 public facility in the UK, officially called the Gender Identity Development Service,

00:32:35.000 ignored evidence that 97.5% of children seeking chemical and surgical sex reassignment services

00:32:42.380 who sought transing the kids had autism, depression, or other problems that may have explained their

00:32:49.820 unhappiness. I first was awakened to this fact when I was giving a speech. I forget which school I was

00:32:56.700 giving a speech and a girl comes up to me and she says, hey Michael, it was a speech on transgenderism

00:33:01.700 and I'd been criticized by all the liberals for saying that transgenderism is delusional and we

00:33:08.500 shouldn't just go about chopping off the healthy organs of children who have other problems. And she 0.99

00:33:13.520 said, Michael, thank you so much for saying that. I was gender dysphoric for years and I really wanted

00:33:20.980 to identify as a boy and I talked to counselors about this and she said, fortunately, I have a

00:33:29.140 strong, good family and it's a good Catholic family and we have a good priest and the priest in my family

00:33:35.460 told me, you are not really a boy. You've definitely got some problems, but whatever your problems are,

00:33:40.860 you are not really a boy. So there's got to be some other explanation. And they push back on the

00:33:45.960 doctors who are peddling this gender madness and they say, no, there's got to be some other 0.98

00:33:49.660 explanation. And what happens? The girl tells me she had undiagnosed autism. And apparently,

00:33:57.460 according to perfectly scientific and credible and journalistic reports, a lot of people,

00:34:03.640 a lot of young people who think that they are the opposite sex have autism or have depression or

00:34:10.740 anxiety or all of these other issues that are not symptoms of gender dysphoria. They are probably

00:34:18.760 more fundamental underlying conditions. And when you treat those conditions, the gender dysphoria

00:34:24.160 is greatly alleviated. That's what this girl told me. And for a doctor to have a troubled kid come in

00:34:31.100 and the kid comes in and says, hey, doc, I've got all these social problems and all these psychological

00:34:37.480 issues. And so I think the solution is you should pump me full of chemicals, stop my puberty later on down

00:34:43.700 the road, chop off my genitals. The doctor says, yeah, that seems like the simplest solution. Okay. 0.99

00:34:49.500 Okay, go get the knives ready. Let's go. That is such insane medical malpractice. We talked yesterday

00:34:56.400 on the show about how a detransitioner in Canada is suing her doctors. Great. Sue all these people, 0.98

00:35:02.780 sue them into the ground, remove their licenses, keep them as far away from the doctor's office and 0.99

00:35:10.900 certainly from the surgical room as possible. Speaking of wielding the politics to this effect,

00:35:17.240 this is the sort of thing you're seeing right now down in Florida. So we talked about how Trump is

00:35:21.260 doing a great job setting himself up for 2024. Here's how DeSantis is doing a great job setting

00:35:25.200 himself up for 2024. There is legislation being proposed in Florida by a state senator there

00:35:31.720 that would hold businesses responsible for the cost of detransition care. So you can never really

00:35:39.460 detransition. There are still going to be plenty of physical effects if you pump yourself full of

00:35:43.700 hormones, certainly if you chop off your organs. But there are certain procedures you're gonna have

00:35:47.860 to try to reverse some of the damage. The legislation would force companies who provide sex change

00:35:56.620 treatment to also pay to reverse the sex change surgeries. This is Senate Bill 952. It's called

00:36:06.080 the Reverse Woke Act filed by Republican Senator Blaise Ingoglia. I love this bill. It would make

00:36:12.800 those employers accountable for the full cost of detransition care, even if an individual is no

00:36:17.600 longer working at that company. If the individual were working at that company and had access to

00:36:24.100 insurance or some stipend to get the transgender surgery, that worker could go back later and say, 0.98

00:36:31.500 hey, you owe me money to go back. Ingoglia says, woke businesses need to be held accountable when

00:36:37.740 offering to pay for gender affirming surgeries in other states, such as California, because they are

00:36:42.220 nothing more than political decisions masquerading as healthcare and human resource decisions.

00:36:47.180 The squishes are gonna say this is an undue burden on businesses. I say this is actually a great help 1.00

00:36:51.360 to businesses, which we'll get to in one second. First though, folks, you know, it is no secret that the

00:36:56.600 Libs hate our country. They want to rewrite history. They vilify our heroes. They omit key 1.00

00:37:00.860 details from the historical record, such as the fact that on Christmas night, 1776, General Washington

00:37:08.320 crossed the Delaware River in a sneak attack against British forces after shaving with a Jeremy's razor.

00:37:16.500 Many people don't know that. You're not being taught that in school. That's a sad reflection

00:37:20.120 on our great nation going woke. But like General Washington before us, you can fight back against woke

00:37:25.460 tyranny simply by picking up a magnificent Jeremy's razor during our 30% off President's Day sale.

00:37:30.580 It's time we celebrate history. We don't cancel that history, okay? You can even see, if you look

00:37:35.620 really closely in the painting, you can see General Washington. He's got his one arm up there while he's

00:37:39.940 crossing the river. And then in the other, kind of just in the back, you can see him shaving with that

00:37:43.720 nice Jeremy's razor. Go to jeremysrazors.com today. Get 30% off any razor, jeremysrazors.com today.

00:37:51.060 Okay. The squishes are going to say that this bill in Florida, it goes too far. The government

00:37:57.240 shouldn't be punishing businesses. Well, it's not the business's fault if they have an insurance plan

00:38:01.880 and the insurance plan then covers the transgender surgery. Now some workers are going to go back and

00:38:07.660 sue the business. This is not an undue burden on business, first of all. As Senator, sorry, I'm getting,

00:38:17.520 I want to make sure I pronounce this beautiful Italian name correctly. As Senator Ingoglia says,

00:38:22.240 these are political decisions masquerading as business decisions. So this is political.

00:38:27.620 When you've got people in your society lopping off their genitals and pretending to be the opposite 0.78

00:38:32.440 sex and receiving protections for that, that's a political matter. That's not just a private

00:38:36.500 enterprise kind of matter. That's first of all. But second of all, in practice, this does not put an

00:38:42.140 undue burden on the businesses. It actually gives a lot of protection to the businesses.

00:38:45.100 Right now, in this unregulated environment where we say, well, look, if you want to chop your 0.99

00:38:55.100 genitals off, that's totally fine. Just don't make me pay for it. In that environment, the 0.99

00:38:59.840 businesses have to face a choice. Do they have an insurance plan that covers these kinds of

00:39:04.200 surgeries? Do they not? Are they going to face blowback from their employees or from the broader

00:39:08.080 public if they do or they don't? What if, let's say, the business owner has a strong

00:39:14.040 religious, moral, biological opposition to this sort of thing, bioethical opposition to this sort

00:39:20.700 of thing. And yet he can't find an insurance company that does not cover the cost of this

00:39:25.640 care. You've seen this sort of issue before with, let's say, a Catholic business or charity wants to

00:39:30.980 get insurance for the employees. And yet all of the insurance covers abortions or contraception or all

00:39:37.680 the rest of it. Catholics say, well, we can't do that. That violates our moral conscience. We can't 0.99

00:39:41.800 give our money to support that sort of a thing. Well, you can certainly see this here with the

00:39:45.360 transgender madness, where 80% of the country thinks it's ridiculous. Well, what this law would 1.00

00:39:52.200 do is give the businesses cover and say, oh, look, we can't do it. We cannot provide transgender 1.00

00:39:59.180 surgery to our employees. The legal liabilities are just too much. Our hands are tied by the government.

00:40:05.540 Oopsie daisy. Okay. Okay, then. Sorry, go away. This is a great use of limited government. It's

00:40:16.480 not small government, but it's government within its proper limits. And certainly it is up to the

00:40:22.140 government, which in a self-government means the society, to set the answers to certain basic

00:40:27.220 questions like what is a man and what is a woman. If we can't do that, then we don't have any government 0.96

00:40:31.840 at all. Then it's just pure anarchy. And when it's pure anarchy, it's going to end up in pure

00:40:36.880 totalitarianism because someone's going to wield that power if we're not going to do it. So I love

00:40:41.480 this law. I think it's great. DeSantis should back it. The rest of the Republicans should back it. I am

00:40:45.640 all about it, baby. Good for the people. It's good for the state and it's good for business.

00:40:51.680 Speaking of state houses doing great, great work, the Indiana House of Representatives just passed an

00:40:57.120 amendment saying that state dollars cannot go to fund a sex institute at the Indiana University

00:41:04.940 campus in Bloomington. At Indiana University in Bloomington, there is an institute called the

00:41:09.920 Kinsey Institute. If that name sounds familiar, it's because it's named after Alfred Kinsey,

00:41:13.660 who is considered the father of the sexual revolution. He was a total perv and a weirdo. 0.99

00:41:19.120 He's probably most famous for overestimating the number of homosexuals in society or maybe just 0.99

00:41:26.260 inflating the numbers artificially to try to encourage more of a sexually liberated culture,

00:41:32.940 as they call it. But he's a controversial guy for a lot of reasons. One, he was a prolific porn

00:41:39.320 collector. This actually ended up with a Supreme Court case that was not resolved until after he died.

00:41:43.220 He was a kid. He was a pervert. He was just a sex-obsessed weirdo. And he also investigated 0.97

00:41:49.600 children's reactions to sexual molestation. And he interviewed at least one pedophile about this and

00:41:59.420 helped sort of maintain the anonymity of that pedophile and wrote not just about this from a

00:42:04.260 criminal perspective, but actually from a sex perspective, what it was like for the child to have 0.99

00:42:09.380 an orgasm. I mean, really, really sick stuff. So he's a weirdo. That alone should be enough to 0.99

00:42:14.920 ostracize him from society and history. But put that aside for a second, because that's going to

00:42:20.360 be one of the big arguments to defund this institute, is that this guy's a total weirdo and we should

00:42:24.920 cancel Alfred Kinsey, which we should. But let's put all the ugliest, most hideous, potentially criminal 0.98

00:42:31.260 allegations aside for a second. Let's just ask a basic question. Why should Hoosiers be forced

00:42:39.040 to spend their taxpayer money on some weird sex institute? If the people of Indiana don't want 1.00

00:42:47.680 to waste their money paying weirdo academics to poke and prod into weird sexual inclinations,

00:42:56.060 and by the way, in so doing, try to normalize a lot of behavior that's not normal, why should they

00:43:00.900 be forced to do that? Well, because of the pursuit of science. Now, listen, I think we got bigger

00:43:06.000 scientific problems than figuring out how to titillate decadent, depraved people even more.

00:43:12.020 I think we got bigger issues, right? Aren't we on the brink of World War III? Haven't we poisoned

00:43:16.480 the air and the water in East Palestine, Ohio? I think there are better applications of medical

00:43:21.980 science than this. If the Kinsey Institute wants to keep running, it can get private funding, I guess.

00:43:29.560 Or they can just shut it down entirely, which would probably be for the best. But fine,

00:43:32.660 you want to let it keep running. Okay, fine. Why on earth should Hoosiers have to pay for that?

00:43:36.680 How is it the case that we have reached a moment in liberalism where we are told the people of 0.80

00:43:42.400 Indiana absolutely have to give their taxpayer money to let these creeps do sex experiments? 1.00

00:43:49.080 This is one of these paradoxes of liberalism. Liberalism, which tells you throw off all the

00:43:52.760 tradition, think for yourself. Actually, you can't think for yourself. Now liberalism says you have

00:43:57.600 self-government. No kings, no tradition. No, you do whatever you want to do, except for that.

00:44:03.500 Except for you're not allowed to choose how to fund sex institutes. You're not allowed to choose

00:44:08.340 your COVID policies. You're not allowed to choose your bureaucrats that actually make all your laws.

00:44:12.800 You're not allowed to choose your foreign policy. You can't do anything. You're not capable of doing

00:44:16.580 that. But you have self-government. That's another one of these paradoxes of liberalism.

00:44:21.460 In the name of freedom, the name of liberation, liberalism, people become much less free.

00:44:29.860 People were in many ways much freer before the advent of liberalism, classical or modern,

00:44:34.920 than they are today. Defund that institute. Good job. I'm really, I love what these state houses are

00:44:41.200 doing around the country. Now speaking of foreign policy and speaking of political interest,

00:44:44.520 there was a really, really interesting speech from Vladimir Putin yesterday. And I know we're not

00:44:49.760 allowed to say that anything he says is interesting. We have to say that everything he

00:44:52.840 says is a filthy, dirty, rotten lie. But that's actually not going to help you defeat Vladimir 0.98

00:44:57.400 Putin. That's not going to help anything about the war in Ukraine. And it's not honest. The fact

00:45:01.800 is Vladimir Putin is a very, very sophisticated statesman and political actor. And we ignore that

00:45:08.000 fact and we deny that fact. And we pretend every year we find out, oh, Vladimir Putin, he's got a

00:45:12.700 terminal illness. He's going to die in two weeks. There's always that propaganda coming out of the 0.86

00:45:16.160 West. They've been doing it for 20 years. It hasn't happened. How about we,

00:45:19.760 how about we confront the real man and the real threat that he poses? Maybe that will help us

00:45:26.840 out a little bit more than, than our previous policy, which only really seems to have helped

00:45:31.420 Putin and really seems to have weakened the West so far. Vladimir Putin was giving a war address

00:45:36.880 about now the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. I will translate, or I think actually

00:45:45.620 there is a translator dubbed over in this speech, assuming that many of you don't speak Russian out

00:45:49.400 there. Here is the rationale for continuing the war in Ukraine, according to Vladimir Putin.

00:45:54.480 Putin. This is very important. And when we're protecting our interests, our people, when we're

00:46:01.560 protecting our language, culture, our territory, everyone, all of our people are defenders of the Motherland.

00:46:11.560 And we thank them from the bottom of our hearts. And I congratulate you on the coming holiday,

00:46:22.700 the day of the defender of the Motherland.

00:46:25.800 This is great propaganda. And I've been talking about it for the last two days now on this show.

00:46:32.960 The best propaganda is the kind that's true, or that at least has a lot of truth to it.

00:46:38.940 We think of propaganda as being total lies. When we call something propaganda, we mean to say,

00:46:43.680 that's dishonest, that's false, that's a lie. No, the best propaganda is the kind that is somewhat,

00:46:49.380 or largely, or even entirely true. And Vladimir Putin, he's a master of political propaganda.

00:46:55.680 There are reports out that he apparently filled that stadium with people, or the organizers at

00:46:59.980 least did, who they paid off. They gave them food, and they gave them five bucks or ten bucks. And they

00:47:04.200 said, hey, come in and just wave the flag. But okay, that's politics. That's show business.

00:47:09.480 What does he say? He says that the Russian troops are fighting for our interests, our people,

00:47:15.300 our language, our culture, our territory. That's a very compelling thing to be fighting for.

00:47:25.920 The way that we give speeches in the West, certainly the way that the liberals give speeches,

00:47:31.660 that's actually not the way Trump gives speeches, but it's the way that the liberals and many of the

00:47:36.000 squishy Republicans, they say, we're fighting for freedom. We're fighting for democracy. We're fighting

00:47:42.320 for this abstraction. We're fighting for that abstraction. We're fighting. They always use

00:47:47.400 the language of modern liberalism, pie in the sky isms, things that seem fairly disconnected from

00:47:55.220 the real lives of real people. Trump really shook that up. He came in and he said, no, I'm fighting

00:48:00.160 for people. Okay, I'm going to lock up the border. I don't want to talk about free trade in the

00:48:06.460 abstract. I want to talk about manufacturing jobs. I want to talk about the rust belt. I want to talk

00:48:10.760 about American interest. When he said, we're going to put America first, that's what he was saying.

00:48:15.680 He's saying, we're going to prioritize the interests, people, language, culture, territory of the

00:48:21.440 American people over these abstractions. Even language. Think about how many Republicans now don't

00:48:29.160 even care if we have a common language in America. Forget about a common culture. Forget about a common

00:48:34.600 territory. What territory do we have? We don't have a real border. That's very persuasive

00:48:40.260 propaganda from Vladimir Putin. And the West ignores that. And the West refuses to learn lessons

00:48:47.300 about that to our own peril. Now, today is, what is it? Woke Thursday? I don't know. We're getting

00:48:56.120 all the days totally jumbled up. Woke Wednesday is now Woke Thursday. But Mr. Davies tells me that

00:49:03.000 there is a podcast clip from some lib that I absolutely have to listen to. I apparently haven't

00:49:07.580 listened to it yet. The rest of the show continues now. We'll be chatting with you in the Crème de la

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The Michael Knowles Show - February 23, 2023

Ep. 1189 - Witches Lead The Witch Hunt Of Donald Trump

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