The Michael Knowles Show - March 06, 2023


Ep. 1196 - Fake News Must Be Eradicated From Public Life


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

176.13861

Word Count

8,146

Sentence Count

649

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

61


Summary

Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life at every level - it's all or nothing. I was accused of genocide for a speech I made on the main stage at CPAC, and I was called a "genocidal maniac."


Transcript

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00:00:37.900 The problem with transgenderism is not that it is inappropriate for children under the age of nine.
00:00:44.140 The problem with transgenderism is that it is not true. The problem with transgenderism is that it
00:00:50.080 puts forward a delusional vision of human nature that denies the reality and importance of sexual
00:00:56.260 difference and complementarity. The problem with transgenderism is that its acceptance at any level
00:01:03.440 necessarily entails the complete destruction of women's bathrooms, women's sports, all of the
00:01:10.840 specific rights and spaces that women currently have for themselves. There can be no middle way in
00:01:17.280 dealing with transgenderism. It's all or nothing. If transgenderism is true, if men really can become
00:01:25.380 women, then it is true for everybody of all ages. If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men and
00:01:34.340 women really are different, as we are, then it is false for everybody, too. And if it is false, then we
00:01:41.960 should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many
00:01:48.540 people. If it is false, then for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor
00:01:56.320 people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life
00:02:04.000 entirely. The whole preposterous ideology at every level. Have I made myself clear? I'm Michael Knowles.
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00:03:50.740 So there I was. I was at the Conservative Political Action Conference, probably the biggest in-person
00:03:58.980 conservative event of the year. And I was giving a speech on the main stage. I said something that I've
00:04:05.120 said for many, many years. Something that everybody in the entire country agreed on until about
00:04:11.080 five minutes ago. And I said that men and women are different and we shouldn't pretend otherwise
00:04:16.360 for the purposes of public life. And then, well then the press decided to call me a genocidal maniac.
00:04:27.540 I have been called many crazy things by the libs over the years. I've been called all sorts of nasty
00:04:35.320 names. Genocidal is a first. I had not gotten that before, but that's exactly what the libs called me.
00:04:41.300 I said, how on earth are the libs going to call me genocidal? I started thinking, I said,
00:04:47.380 I'm a genocidal maniac now. What is my genocidal dictator name going to be? Am I going to be
00:04:52.680 Slobodan Mikulovic? Am I going to be Benito Michelini? Am I going to, Nauchul perhaps? I said,
00:04:58.580 where did they get this from? That I'm genocidal. And then I read the headline. And the headline said,
00:05:04.400 this is from Rolling Stone. CPAC speaker calls for transgender people to be eradicated.
00:05:13.640 Did I say that? I don't remember saying that. Did I? Hold on, let me look through my speech. Oh,
00:05:19.600 of course I never said that. Calls for transgender people to be eradicated. Why? That's a complete
00:05:26.660 lie. And then I looked, there was another article from the Daily Beast said, Michael Knowles says
00:05:33.040 transgender community must be eradicated at CPAC. I said, hold on, let me check my speech.
00:05:39.660 Maybe, I mean, I, maybe I just blacked out for a second. I looked at the, I said, oh no,
00:05:43.560 I never did that either. That was also a total lie from the Daily Beast.
00:05:46.440 Same thing. Huffington Post at CPAC, a call for trans people to be eradicated gets big cheers.
00:05:52.000 Now this one was partially true in that my speech did get very big cheers. I was very pleased that
00:05:57.240 the speech went over well in the room. But the idea that I or anybody else called for
00:06:01.340 trans people to be eradicated, obviously a total lie. I choose my words, generally speaking,
00:06:10.060 pretty carefully. I'm pretty precise in my language. In fact, I wrote a whole book about how
00:06:15.940 important it is to be precise in one's language. It's called Speechless, Controlling Words,
00:06:20.440 Controlling Minds. It is, oh, thank you. It is a number one national bestselling book.
00:06:25.780 I said, well, how did they get this so wrong? Because what did I say? Well, I just read you
00:06:29.680 verbatim what I said in my speech. I said that for the good of society and especially the good of the
00:06:37.340 poor people who've fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life
00:06:42.480 entirely, the whole preposterous ideology. So I thought maybe these people just don't
00:06:50.200 understand the basic meaning of words. But I don't know how they could have misinterpreted what I
00:06:56.800 said. Because if you're just a regular, this went totally viral. Everybody was talking about this
00:07:00.800 over the weekend, which it's always nice to be talked about, I guess, but not generally when you're
00:07:07.080 being accused of inciting genocide. So I said, how could people misinterpret this? And for most people
00:07:12.980 who were talking about it, they didn't watch my speech. They didn't read the text. They didn't
00:07:17.940 even read the article. They just saw the headline. And so if you're just flicking through the news and
00:07:21.640 you say, this guy calls for people to be eradicated or community to be eradicated, you're just going to
00:07:26.640 believe the headline and move on. The problem for most people is they believed fake news from the
00:07:32.000 Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, and Rolling Stone. But what about the news editors who wrote those
00:07:36.980 headlines? So could they really be this stupid? Could they really be this ignorant of the basic
00:07:42.700 workings of the English language? And ism, generally speaking, refers to a doctrine, a set of beliefs,
00:07:49.780 an idea. Sometimes it can refer to, I guess, a medical condition. But even so, if you want to
00:07:55.580 eradicate a medical condition, you're not saying you want to eradicate the patient. So I don't see how
00:07:59.260 they could get that. I was quite clear in my language. I said, this is for the good of the
00:08:05.680 people involved. I want to benefit the people who have fallen prey to this ideology. So quite clearly,
00:08:11.080 I'm saying I don't want to kill these people. I want to help them. And then even if you were
00:08:16.960 confused by what ism means, I explain it in the very sentence. Say I'm referring to a whole preposterous
00:08:24.260 ideology. So I started to think, these news editors, I don't think they were confused by
00:08:31.940 what I said. I think they were deliberately lying about what I said. I think they were acting with
00:08:38.780 actual malice to libel me. And I made that point. I told the news people, I retweeted these things.
00:08:51.000 I said, I never said that. And I demand a retraction. This is libel. And I first did
00:08:56.820 it to the Daily Beast. And I first did it to Rolling Stone. I think I later did it to the
00:09:00.780 Huffington Post. And almost immediately, Rolling Stone and the Daily Beast changed their headlines
00:09:06.140 to get rid of transgender people or transgender community and use my actual words, which is the
00:09:11.700 idea of transgenderism. So how'd that happen? I don't know for sure. I assume what happened is
00:09:17.960 that the editors at the Rolling Stone and the Daily Beast got a call from their legal departments
00:09:22.460 saying, hey, guys, you have committed actual libel here. And the threshold for libel lawsuits,
00:09:29.880 defamation lawsuits is very high in the United States. And you've still probably crossed it
00:09:33.920 because you're demonstrating actual malice here. It's just so preposterous from the content of the
00:09:40.620 speech. And so they changed their headlines quick as can be. And then what's funny is Rolling Stone
00:09:45.580 got pushed back from the left because the left was very upset that they came to, quote unquote,
00:09:50.080 right-wing pressure, by which they meant libel laws and honesty and the truth. And so then
00:09:54.740 Rolling Stone had to change the headline again to still acknowledge that I obviously didn't call
00:09:59.480 for genocide or anything like that. But they then changed their headline to insult me. So it was all
00:10:05.060 pretty clear. There are some news outlets that have not yet changed their headlines.
00:10:09.500 I would recommend that they do so. I would recommend they reconsider that because I don't
00:10:17.600 really know how I could have been any clearer in my language. And I don't think a news editor could
00:10:24.620 look someone straight in the face and say, I didn't understand what the man was saying.
00:10:27.700 Now, some people who just read the headlines, they also kind of proved my point. There was a blue
00:10:35.320 check on Twitter named Reverend Dr. Jackie Lewis, some liberal blue check. And she said,
00:10:40.680 you can't eradicate transgenderism without violence against trans siblings. People don't simply cease to
00:10:48.720 exist. Okay, they're saying you can't eradicate transgenderism without murdering all the transgender
00:10:56.580 people or whatever. But then her very next tweet, she says, I just dream about a world where we spend
00:11:02.740 the amount of energy, time and money we currently waste on bigotry to eradicate poverty, homelessness,
00:11:09.080 hunger, and medical debt. Do you see the problem with what she said? Do you see how she might have
00:11:16.040 just undermined her own point? Unless Jackie Lewis is calling for a genocide of the poor, the homeless,
00:11:24.540 the hungry, and the indebted. She just made my point, which is that we can eradicate ideas,
00:11:33.240 institutions, pathologies, ailments without eradicating human beings. If we say, I want to
00:11:41.000 eradicate capitalism from public life, plenty of liberals would say something to that effect.
00:11:45.120 Are they saying they want to slaughter all the capitalists? Maybe they are, but that's not the
00:11:49.000 meaning of the sentence. You say, oh, you want to eradicate communism. You're going to kill all the
00:11:52.520 communists? No. You say, we're going to eradicate anorexia. Anorexia must be eradicated from public
00:11:59.120 life. Are you saying you want to kill all the anorexics? No, of course not. Of course not.
00:12:02.920 And the libs accidentally have proven my point. So the question then becomes, the more honest liberals
00:12:11.000 have said, okay, well, what does it mean then to eradicate transgenderism from public life?
00:12:17.520 And it's a good question. I'm glad people are talking about that. That was the point of my speech.
00:12:21.780 What would it mean to eradicate the preposterous ideology of transgenderism from public life at
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00:13:43.660 eradicating transgenderism from public life would mean behaving as American society did before, say,
00:13:54.340 2015. Before, around 2015, we did not have any acceptance of transgenderism in public life.
00:14:05.600 And it started to be introduced into public life around 2015 when Barack Obama instituted
00:14:13.280 transgender military policies and some liberals in North Carolina decided to invite men into the
00:14:18.140 women's bathroom and pass all sorts of weird ordinances about bathrooms. Then later on,
00:14:23.620 we got the Bostock decision. The Bostock decision rewrote civil rights law to say that there was a
00:14:28.900 protection for gender identity in there. Obviously, there is not one, but that came years later.
00:14:33.180 So we're only talking about the last seven, eight years or so. We've had transgenderism in public
00:14:39.820 life. And my point is, you can't deal with transgenderism only by saying we're not going
00:14:49.220 to trans the kids. I think there are a lot of conservatives who say, okay, look, transgender
00:14:53.640 adults, if a man wants to identify as a woman, he's an adult, that's fine. Just don't do it to the kids.
00:14:59.080 That's missing the point. I actually think this is what motivated these news outlets to lie about
00:15:04.480 what I said. They obviously couldn't deal with the argument I was making. If they could, they would
00:15:09.840 have done that. But they couldn't do that. So they had to lie. They had to rewrite what I said until I
00:15:16.360 scared them at the prospect of libel laws. And then they had to change their headlines, even though
00:15:19.680 there's still libelous content in the articles. Why? Because the left believed that it had already won
00:15:27.060 the transgender issue, just like it wins every other social issue. Just about. What happens, and I've
00:15:34.480 talked about this on the show for weeks now, and I actually mentioned it in my CPAC speech. What happens
00:15:39.080 is the libs introduce some crazy idea. And then the conservatives briefly stand firm. They briefly
00:15:46.460 oppose it. Then the liberals totally stand firm. And then the conservatives cave. And then the conservatives
00:15:53.880 will say, okay, I'm fine with that idea. But this new idea that the liberals are proposing, that's crazy.
00:16:00.740 And that's just what happens. So in the 1970s, you had the feminists start burning their bras and
00:16:06.640 saying that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. And what did the conservatives say? They
00:16:10.660 said, that's totally crazy. Feminism, oh my goodness, that's crazy. And then what happened? The liberals
00:16:16.380 stood firm. And pretty quickly, the conservatives said, okay, feminism's fine. But this sexual revolution,
00:16:21.960 all that village people stuff over there, that's crazy. And then what happened? Very quickly, the
00:16:28.660 conservatives said, okay, well, the sexual revolution and the village people stuff and everything, that's
00:16:32.520 totally fine. But those liberals, you're never going to redefine marriage. That would be crazy. And then what
00:16:38.280 happened? Five seconds later, the liberals redefine marriage and the conservatives totally roll over. And then
00:16:43.220 the conservatives say, okay, well, this new definition of marriage, that's fine. But transgenderism,
00:16:48.180 that's crazy. And then what happens? Five seconds later, the conservatives cave. And now we're on
00:16:53.340 this new stage where they say, okay, transgenderism is fine. But transing the kids, that's crazy. Or
00:16:57.560 actually, in some cases, you have some conservatives saying, well, transing the kids in certain
00:17:01.800 circumstances is fine, but just not the five-year-olds. Wait till eight. Transing the eight
00:17:08.840 years and younger, that's okay. Or rather, that's not okay. But transing the nine-year-olds and up,
00:17:14.620 that's okay. And so it just, the culture just moves ever, ever more to the left. And the reason
00:17:18.780 that the libs, I think, had to libel me and lie about what I said is because I said, no, I'm not
00:17:25.600 rolling over on transgenderism. And you can't because it's not five-year-olds who are going into
00:17:32.400 women's bathrooms and taking women's private spaces. If a five-year-old is going into a woman's
00:17:36.860 bathroom, it's because his mother is bringing him in there, okay? The issue with women being able to
00:17:42.180 have their own bathrooms or have their own sports teams or have their own locker rooms or have their
00:17:45.540 own public spaces is not that little kids are identifying as the opposite sex. It's that 50-year-olds
00:17:52.140 are identifying as the opposite sex. So if you want to deal with the transgender issue, it's kind of
00:17:57.700 all or nothing. Furthermore, the argument that the liberals make for transing the little kids
00:18:02.460 is they say transgenderism is real. A man can be a woman secretly, or a woman can be a man born into
00:18:08.180 the wrong body. You're born that way. And so if you're born that way, if it's real, if that's a true
00:18:12.820 anthropology, then it's got to be real for everybody. If transgenderism is real, then we certainly should
00:18:17.140 trans the kids because the kids are already trans. And so to deny their true nature would be cruel.
00:18:24.620 The issue is transgenderism is not real for anybody. A man can't really become a woman, and a woman can't
00:18:29.320 really become a man. And all the arguments they make to this effect are preposterous. Some are
00:18:34.400 metaphysical arguments. They'll say, well, my body is that of a man, but my soul or my spirit
00:18:38.360 is that of a woman. Sometimes it's materialist. They'll say, well, much of my body is the body of
00:18:42.800 a man, but my brain is that of a woman. That's a really funny argument because the feminists told
00:18:47.900 us, remember, for the purposes of feminism, men and women have identical brains. And if you suggest
00:18:53.500 that the brains of men and the brains of women are different, you're a terrible sexist and a
00:18:56.880 misogynist. But for the purposes of transgenderism, men and women have brains that are so different
00:19:02.680 that you can see it very quickly on a scan. And men who have women's brains, whatever that means,
00:19:09.180 is, I assume it means something kind of offensive to women, but whatever that means,
00:19:13.980 you need to mutilate your body and be accepted as a woman in society.
00:19:20.340 So what does it mean? What does it mean to eradicate transgenderism from public life? Well,
00:19:24.560 I chose my words carefully. We're talking about public life. I'm not suggesting that we're going to go
00:19:28.660 in and force people to believe a certain way. The law is a teacher. Public life is a teacher.
00:19:35.560 We're mimetic beings. So, you know, ultimately the norms that prevail in society are going to shape
00:19:41.060 the way that we view ourselves and view the world. We're just talking about public life here.
00:19:46.420 If you want to go home and imagine yourself to be the opposite sex, nobody's going to stop you from
00:19:50.440 doing that. But in public life, when it comes to your birth certificate, when it comes to bathrooms,
00:19:54.500 when it comes to the way that you, when it comes to your passport, when it comes to the way that you
00:20:00.780 present yourself in sex-selective spaces, you don't get to pretend to be the opposite sex.
00:20:10.480 Why? Why do we have to do that? Well, because it's the truth. And a society that ignores the
00:20:16.200 distinction between truth and falsehood is not going to flourish. Also because people who are
00:20:22.400 transgender, who are identified as transgender, generally speaking, don't have a very happy go
00:20:27.920 of things. It's a very difficult delusion to labor under. And you see this reflected in high rates
00:20:32.860 of anxiety and stress and suicide and all the rest of it. And it is simply a fact that as the
00:20:39.360 preposterous notion of transgenderism has been normalized in society, more and more people have
00:20:44.000 started to identify as transgender. It is whatever you want to say the root cause of transgenderism is,
00:20:49.720 or gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder, or whatever the new term is.
00:20:54.700 It clearly develops as a social contagion. The more people identify with it, the more people
00:21:01.520 will identify with it. This is how you get to a place now where, according to one survey,
00:21:05.300 more than one in five Zoomers identifies as LGBT. Either Alex Jones is right, and there's something
00:21:11.180 in the water turning the freaking frogs gay, or this is a social contagion. Obviously it is.
00:21:16.380 And obviously it is, because man is mimetic. The way that we learn, the way we develop personality,
00:21:22.560 the way that we develop beliefs and behaviors, is by imitating others. It's even the way we develop
00:21:27.000 our desires. You want the Rolex watch, not because you know something about horology,
00:21:34.100 not because you know about the finer points of this gold, or this movement, or this steel.
00:21:39.540 You want the Rolex watch because some other guy wants the Rolex watch, and it has created a sense
00:21:45.700 of status and prestige. That's called mimesis. The little baby learns to smile because he looks up at
00:21:50.540 his mother while he's breastfeeding, and the mother looks down, and eventually he mimics that behavior.
00:21:55.160 This is why little kids are sponges, and you've got to watch what you say around little kids,
00:21:58.060 because they suck up all sorts of behaviors and speech. And that's true for everybody.
00:22:03.500 Everybody. That's how society operates. So I was really pleased. No conservatives were fooled by
00:22:09.960 this. Immediately you saw, there are too many to name, but all the big conservative names come out
00:22:15.940 and defend me, including conservatives who don't even like me that much. I want to give a shout out
00:22:20.020 to Brad Palumbo, who is a very pro-LGBT libertarian type, who identifies as being on the right. And he
00:22:27.900 criticizes me all the time. He says, I don't like Michael Knowles. I think this guy's extreme. I'm
00:22:32.720 socially liberal and all this stuff. But he said, but you've got to be a liar to pretend that when
00:22:38.980 he's criticizing an idea and calling for the eradication of that idea, he's calling for genocide.
00:22:44.120 And there were many more prominent conservatives then who came out and pointed out that what these
00:22:49.860 news agencies did is libelous and, I think, actionable. Senator Mike Lee, who is a Supreme Court
00:22:59.640 litigator and obviously a United States senator and frequently discussed as a candidate for the
00:23:04.140 Supreme Court, he pointed out, he said, this is indeed libelous. It's an example of how a bad Supreme
00:23:08.360 Court ruling from 1964, New York Times versus Sullivan, has created a monster, giving the news
00:23:12.840 media a license to lie about any public figure who can't prove that the reporter acted with actual
00:23:16.820 malice, which is nearly impossible. Vidhika Ramaswamy, another friend of mine who is running for
00:23:23.020 president right now, graduate of Yale Law School, very, very sharp legal mind, pointed out, he said,
00:23:27.560 I think actually it seems clear that they were acting with actual malice. And so we'll see.
00:23:33.020 I'm glad to see that the Daily Beast and the Rolling Stone corrected their defamatory,
00:23:37.140 dishonest, libelous headlines. Look forward to other outlets doing the same. Okay,
00:23:42.260 enough about me, but more about the dishonest press. I saw this headline. Where is it? From ABC News.
00:23:50.340 It says, psychosomatic effects may be contributing to the symptoms of headaches, fatigue, or respiratory
00:23:59.660 issues being reported by some residents of East Palestine, Ohio, following a hazardous chemical
00:24:04.920 spill last month, experts say. It's psychosomatic. So this is the latest about East Palestine, which was
00:24:14.640 blown up with a bunch of toxic chemicals that poison the air, very possibly poison the water,
00:24:19.940 and nobody wanted to talk about it. And there was, if not a media blackout, at least a media brownout.
00:24:25.180 They just weren't focusing on it very much until President Trump showed up. President Trump brought
00:24:31.120 a lot of attention to East Palestine. Senator J.D. Vance, a number of other people have come,
00:24:34.920 finally forced Pete Buttigieg and the federal government to come down and address the situation.
00:24:41.680 So why did, why did they have to do that? Because the residents of East Palestine were saying,
00:24:46.360 I'm getting rashes. I'm developing a cough. I've got all these problems. So the new line from the
00:24:51.760 fake news media is, oh yeah, these effects, it's all in your head. It's all psychosomatic.
00:25:00.720 Including the headaches and the fatigue and the respiratory issues. Oh, you're having trouble
00:25:03.740 breathing. No, no, no. That's just in your head. I think it's in your lungs. We are now told that,
00:25:10.160 this is amazing. We're now told that if you, if you believe that you're the opposite sex,
00:25:18.800 that you're suffering from a very real medical condition. But if you've got rashes and lung
00:25:24.700 damage and headaches from the toxic chemical explosion in your town, oh, that's just all in
00:25:29.380 your head. Never mind. Move along. That isn't real. That's where we are, according to the news
00:25:34.400 media. Is it any wonder that people don't believe in this stuff anymore? People on the right don't
00:25:40.060 believe in it. People on the left do still believe in it. And which is, which is why,
00:25:45.220 which is why they're allowed to lie about people. And if we don't hold them accountable,
00:25:49.080 they're going to keep lying. This is also why Trump does very well. Trump does very, very well
00:25:54.740 because of the way the political establishment treats the people who are exactly like the residents
00:26:00.840 of East Palestine, Ohio. The forgotten people, the people in flyover country, the people who are
00:26:06.300 deplorable and irredeemable, bitter, clinging, rube, toothless, jerk, hillbilly, hick, idiots.
00:26:12.660 That's what the people on the coast say about pretty much everybody from, I don't know, 200 miles
00:26:19.180 into the West Coast, 200 miles into the East Coast. Everybody in the middle, terrible, useless deplorables.
00:26:24.600 And Trump does very well with them. His numbers are reflecting that. Speaking of CPAC,
00:26:29.400 Trump just won the CPAC straw poll, and he won it by a country mile. 62% of the respondents at the
00:26:37.500 straw poll voted for Trump. Ron DeSantis did not show up to CPAC. He still came in second,
00:26:43.740 though. He got 20%. Third place went to a Michigan billionaire named Perry Johnson.
00:26:47.600 So does that matter? Well, the CPAC straw poll, it's got actually a pretty decent record in
00:26:55.380 predicting the nominee. Not perfect. It's a little bit of a mixed bag. Some straw polls,
00:27:00.580 though, don't matter at all. The CPAC one does a little bit. In 2020, obviously, they picked Trump.
00:27:06.160 In 2016, the CPAC straw poll picked Cruz. And Cruz was the number two guy. He almost got the nomination,
00:27:11.600 but it went to Trump. In 2012, the CPAC straw poll picked Romney. 2008 also picked Romney,
00:27:16.640 so they got that one wrong. In 2000, they picked Bush. They got that one right. Dole in 96,
00:27:21.060 they got that one right. Buchanan in 92, they got that one wrong. Reagan in 1980,
00:27:24.860 they got that one obviously right. So it's a mixed bag, but Trump winning it, I think,
00:27:30.740 is a pretty decent sign, especially for the kinds of candidates. You know, CPAC was founded
00:27:34.960 basically for Ronald Reagan. And Reagan showed up. He tried to show up every single year of his
00:27:41.200 presidency. I think once he was not able to make it for an emergency. But he said he had to show up to
00:27:45.160 CPAC because he wanted to dance with the gal that brung him. And he felt that CPAC was representing
00:27:50.480 that conservative grassroots movement. Obviously, it's changed a lot over the years. But I think
00:27:57.320 the conclusion has to be, no matter how well DeSantis is doing, he's governing very well. He's
00:28:01.380 campaigning very well, even though he hasn't officially declared he's running yet. But I think
00:28:05.420 in this race, Trump remains the favorite. He remains the guy to beat.
00:28:09.880 Not just CPAC showing this. There was a Yahoo, YouGov poll that was released. It was last week
00:28:16.540 showing that 47% of Republicans would vote for Trump in a head-to-head primary against DeSantis.
00:28:23.040 That means that DeSantis is eight points behind Trump right now at 39%, 13 undecided. So Trump could,
00:28:29.420 or DeSantis rather, could still take it. But even according to that poll, Trump wins.
00:28:35.040 And it's important that that's a head-to-head poll. Because again, early polls don't matter
00:28:39.700 that much. And it really depends on the state and the caucus or the primary. But nevertheless,
00:28:45.600 the conventional wisdom had been, if Trump runs, he can clear the field, then he gets the nomination.
00:28:50.160 If Trump ran, he did not clear the field. If it's Trump versus DeSantis, DeSantis wins.
00:28:56.240 But if he really doesn't clear the field and a lot of other candidates get in, as we're seeing now,
00:29:00.200 Nikki Haley's gotten in, Vivek Ramaswamy's getting in. There are a lot of other people who are
00:29:03.680 predicted to get in. And then in a split field, Trump is going to be able to hold his plurality.
00:29:09.060 Let's say he doesn't get 50% plus, but he holds that plurality just like he did in 2016. He wins
00:29:13.320 the nomination. So the fact that right now, Trump is head-to-head beating DeSantis,
00:29:18.140 very good sign for Trump. And also what it means is that right now, people are living in echo chambers.
00:29:25.060 So the people who everyone's talking to in the primary campaigns tend to be the people of like
00:29:33.400 mind, like social status, like personal interest. And so you're seeing, especially among the pundits,
00:29:40.280 a gravitation toward Ron DeSantis and a lot of other people too. Plenty of people really,
00:29:44.820 really like Ron DeSantis. But I'm not sure that's totally reflective of every part of the GOP base.
00:29:50.360 Certainly this early, when Ron DeSantis doesn't have anywhere near the name recognition that Trump does,
00:29:54.440 because the primary has not really taken off yet. It's all about what do people want. And speaking
00:30:00.900 of what people want, do you know what they want? They want chocolate that has not been transed.
00:30:07.260 Forget about transing the kids. Forget about transing the adults. People want regular old
00:30:12.620 chocolate. They want she, her chocolate. That's just regular chocolate. And they want he, him chocolate
00:30:19.300 that contains nuts. And that's what they got from Jeremy's chocolates. You may have seen this
00:30:23.720 commercial. I've had a very busy few weeks. I'm traveling a lot. And so I came into the office,
00:30:30.180 did my show. I went off site to record a long interview for a project we're working on.
00:30:35.600 I came back. I had to record more that night. As I'm recording, I hear a pause. They say,
00:30:42.180 stop, Michael. You got to walk out of the set. Jeremy needs you. So I'm in the middle of doing my,
00:30:47.760 hey, I said, Jeremy needs you. I said, okay, fine. I walk out and Jeremy, Jeremy says, hey,
00:30:53.900 I need you to stand here next to the McLaren. I said, why is that? He goes, oh, we started a
00:30:57.240 chocolate company. It's, it's called Jeremy's chocolates. You go to I hate Hershey's.com
00:31:01.780 because Hershey's is transing the chocolates and we want to give people an alternative. I said,
00:31:05.380 okay, yeah, that makes sense. So we do, we shoot the commercial. It comes out immediately. This is
00:31:08.940 like the same day that Hershey's pushed its weird trans campaign where to celebrate women's history
00:31:15.020 month or whatever women's month it is. They got a dude dressed up as a woman to sell the chocolate.
00:31:19.960 So Jeremy puts it up immediately. I hate Hershey's.com goes up immediately,
00:31:23.840 sources the chocolate immediately. And you think, okay, it's a funny joke,
00:31:26.960 but are they actually going to sell any chocolate? Jeremy has sold 300,000 non-woke chocolate bars.
00:31:34.660 The man has become actually Willy Wonka. He is now, he's always been Willy Wonka-esque. He is now
00:31:43.100 literally Willy Wonka. 300,000 chocolate bars in less than two days. I hate Hershey's.com. Go order
00:31:51.280 yours. Check out the commercial. International Women's Day is upon us again. And I love an
00:31:57.320 international woman, but our friends over at Hershey's, they don't even know what a woman is.
00:32:01.280 They've hired a biological male to be the spokesperson for their Women's Day campaign.
00:32:05.800 And they're calling that campaign, and I swear I'm not making this up, Her-She.
00:32:12.380 Her-She. It's humiliating. And it's the reason that I'm launching
00:32:16.380 Jeremy's Chocolate. We have two kinds. She-Her and He-Him. One of them's got nuts. If you need me to tell
00:32:27.300 you which one it is, keep giving your money to Hershey's. But if you're tired of giving your money
00:32:31.940 to woke corporations that hate you, and you're looking for a delicious chocolate bar from a company
00:32:36.020 that actually wants your business, head over to IHateHershey's.com and order Jeremy's Chocolate
00:32:41.200 today. If you ask me, I think people are hungry for an alternative, and I think you've all proved that.
00:32:48.960 So head on over to IHateHershey's.com and get yourself some delicious non-woke chocolate and
00:32:55.840 just keep us all laughing. Because these libs, they overplay their hands, and they think that
00:33:03.440 they've got total power, and they think we're all going to cave. And this goes right up to what we
00:33:07.940 were talking about at the top of the show. They are so certain that we're going to cave. They are so
00:33:13.320 certain that we're going to cave that whenever anyone stands up against their insane agenda,
00:33:18.860 they will libel that person. They'll smear that person. They really think, oh, we can cancel
00:33:24.320 anybody we want. We can silence anybody we want. We're going to put out a crappy product, and you're
00:33:30.120 going to buy it because you have no alternatives. You sheep, you little sheep, you'll do what I say.
00:33:34.560 Where'd Dr. Fauci come from? I don't know. That's their voice. That's what they believe.
00:33:37.740 And what we say is, no. No. Whatever products you poison, we're going to offer an alternative.
00:33:45.120 Whatever crazy ideas you say are inevitable, we're going to stand firm. And you're going
00:33:49.020 to have to deal with it, libs. People want a choice. They don't want an echo.
00:33:54.680 That was a great line from Phyllis Schlafly. It is a line that I quoted in my CPAC speech.
00:33:58.820 And it is an important fact of conservatism. If we're just going to be fighting for the
00:34:09.180 liberal policies of 10 years ago, then there's no point in having conservatives. If we're just
00:34:13.440 going to be, to use Michael Malice's term, progressives driving the speed limit, then
00:34:17.500 there's no point to having conservatives. We need to say no, stand firm, and actually go on the
00:34:24.320 offense. Go back in the other direction. Sometimes the best defense is a strong offense.
00:34:29.640 The squishes will not do. On that point, by the way, I think YouTube may have taken down
00:34:34.640 my CPAC speech. If you want to read the full text verbatim, you've got to go to dailywire.com.
00:34:39.440 I have it up there. You can read what the media won't allow you to see, or what they'll just
00:34:44.440 lie about in their print. People don't want the squishes. And so there was a guy who was
00:34:49.560 a big squish governor in Maryland, and he was considering running for president. Larry Hogan,
00:34:55.160 not looking good. It was a tough decision, but I've decided that I will not be a candidate for
00:35:01.740 the Republican nomination for president. Wow, huge news. Here, I'm going to make news
00:35:06.200 that's just as big. I, too, will not be a candidate in 2024 for the Republican nomination
00:35:11.920 for president. I am constitutionally ineligible because I'm too young, and yet I think I had a
00:35:17.460 much better chance of winning that nomination and the presidency than Larry Hogan ever did.
00:35:21.740 What's the lane for Larry Hogan? Hey, I'll be a liberal from 2019. Hey, I'll be, I'm a liberal,
00:35:32.200 but not the craziest, fringiest liberal that you ever saw. Now, if I'm going to vote for a Democrat,
00:35:37.080 I want to vote for a real Democrat. I want a clear alternative. If I'm going to vote for a liberal,
00:35:41.580 I want him to be a coherent liberal. And if I want a conservative, I want a conservative.
00:35:46.200 People want clarity. And I think a lot of the times the squishes believe that what we need to do is
00:35:52.180 we just need to be a little conciliatory. Meet you halfway. Okay, all right, you guys want to
00:35:56.720 trans the three-year-olds. I don't think, I think we should only trans the 18-year-olds. Okay, let's
00:36:00.660 meet at 12. No, if you keep, if you keep meeting halfway and halfway and halfway as they push to the
00:36:05.820 left, then you're just inevitably going to follow them all the way down the road to perdition.
00:36:09.440 Now, speaking of people who might run for president, and speaking of ambiguously partisan
00:36:15.580 people, Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat from West Virginia, is asked if he will endorse Joe Biden in
00:36:23.380 2024. Here is his answer. Are you going to endorse Joe Biden if he runs for re-election?
00:36:29.700 Oh, there's plenty of time for the election. This is the problem with America right now. We start an
00:36:33.220 election every time there's a cycle coming up. Yeah, he's the leader of your party.
00:36:36.120 I, I, no, the bottom line is let's see who's involved. Let's wait until we see who all the
00:36:41.760 players are. Let's just wait until it all comes out. My main purpose right now is to work for my
00:36:46.800 country and my, and my state. That's my responsibility. I'm not going to make my announcement for
00:36:52.200 anything until the end of the year. You've said you're not running for president. Is that an open
00:36:56.880 question though? I didn't say that. I didn't say anything about that. The bottom line is I will make
00:37:02.680 my political decision in December, whatever it may be. To run for president? I'm not taking anything
00:37:07.300 off the table and I'm not putting, and I'm not putting anything on the table. I said, I'll make
00:37:11.740 a decision in January, at this, at the end of this year. So Joe Manchin is recognizing here,
00:37:18.320 one, maybe he wants to run for president, so he's trying to keep his options open, but he's in a tough
00:37:23.800 spot. Is he going to run in the Democratic Party? He'd never win the nomination. Is he going to run
00:37:28.680 in the Republican Party? He'd have a better shot at winning the nomination, but no. Is he going to
00:37:33.160 run as an independent? That's probably going nowhere. Could he try to make a play to be a
00:37:36.540 vice president? Or I don't think that's going to happen. Remember, John McCain wanted to pick
00:37:41.220 Joe Lieberman, the Democrat, to be his running mate. Republicans would have completely thrown
00:37:45.420 him out for that. It's absurd to have your party pick a member of the opposite party to be the running
00:37:49.220 mate. And so I don't see that ever happening. Or is Joe Manchin trying to keep his powder dry,
00:37:55.260 get ready to cross the aisle, endorse whoever the eventual Republican nominee is, whether that's
00:38:00.460 Trump, whether that's Ron DeSantis, whether that's somebody else, and then get a position like,
00:38:04.800 I don't know, Secretary of State or some cabinet position. That, to me, seems more likely. He's
00:38:09.760 trying to keep his powder dry to aim at something that would be pretty significant in a Republican
00:38:15.280 administration, which is probably where he would get it. He also realizes Joe Biden is just not a
00:38:21.060 good bet right now. And the people don't want that. The voters don't want that. Now, speaking of
00:38:26.260 voters, very troubling story from Washington, D.C. Non-citizens are now apparently allowed to vote
00:38:34.740 in local Washington, D.C. elections. How is this possible? Well, because D.C. has the license at the
00:38:44.780 moment to govern itself in many ways. But ultimately, D.C. does not have any right to govern itself.
00:38:50.260 Ultimately, the Congress governs Washington, D.C. Because Washington, D.C. is not a state.
00:38:55.380 It's not a normal municipality in America. It's the federal district. And the federal district is run
00:39:00.620 by Congress. So why on earth would Congress allow the local government there to allow these
00:39:07.060 non-residents to vote in elections? Because the Democrats still run the Senate. So the House
00:39:13.020 Republicans could clamp down on the D.C. local government and say, no, you're not going to allow
00:39:18.720 these foreigners to vote in elections. But the Senate's going to strike that down. I say, who
00:39:23.620 cares? The House Republicans must, I am begging you, I'm on my knees. I'm not on my knees. I'm in
00:39:29.260 my chair at my desk. But I'm rhetorically on my knees. Bring this up for a vote. Vote as the House
00:39:36.160 of Representatives to overrule the D.C. local government to say that foreigners cannot vote.
00:39:41.940 Because what that will do is force the Senate Democrats to shoot down the House legislation.
00:39:48.480 It will force the Senate Democrats to go on the record supporting voting by foreigners in American
00:39:56.040 elections in the American capital. And what that does, it won't necessarily affect a whole lot in
00:40:02.540 terms of electoral politics. Because Washington, D.C. does not have a voting representative to the
00:40:07.960 Congress. It doesn't have a ton of its own political power. But it will destroy the Democrats'
00:40:16.000 narrative that they are not rigging elections. It will destroy the Democrats' narrative that they
00:40:20.540 support election integrity. It will force the Democrats to go on the record saying, we explicitly
00:40:25.180 support non-citizens voting in elections. It will look absolutely terrible and will very much
00:40:30.440 strengthen the Republicans' correct argument that the Democrats regularly rig elections and cheat
00:40:36.220 to keep their political power. Really, really important. House Republicans, get it done.
00:40:41.440 Speaking of foreigners, really disturbing story out of the United Kingdom has to do with all sorts of
00:40:48.040 questions that we've been talking about today. This is from the BBC. Four Wakefield pupils
00:40:55.220 have been suspended after a Quran was damaged at the school. What happened? Well, the head teacher at the
00:41:05.000 school, Mr. Griffiths, said, we would like to reassure all our community that the holy book,
00:41:10.620 this teacher is referring to the Quran as a holy book, remains fully intact and that our special
00:41:15.060 inquiries indicate there was no malicious intent by those involved. However, we have made it very clear
00:41:21.360 that their actions did not, this is the actions of the students, did not treat the Quran with the
00:41:26.480 respect it should have. So those involved have been suspended and we will be working with them to
00:41:32.940 ensure they understand why their actions were unacceptable. This morning, we met with local
00:41:37.140 Muslim community leaders, local counselors, and police to share all the information we currently
00:41:40.760 know, the action taken, and the immediate steps we've taken to reinforce the values and behavior we
00:41:45.400 expect from every member of the school community to ensure that all religions are respected.
00:41:49.720 I have read the Quran. I have more respect for the Quran than I have, at least for a number of books
00:42:01.220 that are taught in schools today, like genderqueer and all the gay porn and all that kind of stuff.
00:42:07.100 But this is absurd. This is, listen to what they're saying. They're saying that students who
00:42:12.500 accidentally disrespected the Quran will be suspended for doing so. Would that have happened
00:42:21.320 had the students disrespected the Bible accidentally or intentionally? No. That's the new norm. That's the
00:42:29.280 new norm in British public life. The Quran is considered a holy book, holier than the Bible,
00:42:36.040 certainly. And it has to be treated with that kind of reverence and respect. That's public life.
00:42:44.780 There's always going to be a religious component to politics. All politics, all human conflict,
00:42:49.680 ultimately is theological. There are going to be premises that undergird our entire political system,
00:42:55.880 the background principles. And this is where the transgender stuff comes in. This is what it means
00:43:00.900 to eradicate transgenderism from public life. Right now, if you question the false anthropology,
00:43:08.900 which states that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man, you can be kicked off of
00:43:15.000 YouTube or any of the big tech platforms. You can be fired from your job. You can be kicked out of
00:43:20.900 school. You can be ostracized from your community. If you question such a thing while you are committing
00:43:26.300 another crime, you can have your charges increased because it can be called a hate crime. A hate crime
00:43:31.980 if you say something that's true. That's a big problem. And so to eradicate this idea from public
00:43:40.620 life, and we eradicate all sorts of ideas. We suppress all sorts of ideas in this country. We ban the Bible
00:43:46.960 from public schools. We ban prayer from schools. We insist upon this absurd secularism that reads into the
00:43:54.300 Establishment Clause of the Constitution, a firm separation of church and state that never existed
00:43:59.080 until very recent decades. We rewrite civil rights law to pretend that there is a kind of protection
00:44:04.440 for gender identity, which is delusional. And that creates a system in which you cannot disagree
00:44:13.260 publicly with transgenderism. The consequences will be effective. Punishment all the way to ostracism or
00:44:21.060 worse. And we're going to, we have to live under some kind of anthropology, okay? We've got to live
00:44:28.140 under some kind of epistemology. We've got to live under some kind of applied morality. All of those
00:44:33.240 things are going to inform the politics that we necessarily will live under. And there's no middle
00:44:37.720 ground between truth and falsehood and between reality and delusion. We've got to pick one, and that's
00:44:42.940 going to inform all these other aspects of public life. Which is it? Are we going to live under
00:44:47.840 the anthropology which states that men and women are different and actually they're complementary
00:44:54.140 of one another? Or are we going to live under the anthropology which states that men and women
00:44:59.020 are exactly the same in certain ways, and men can become women, and it's all fluid, and women don't
00:45:06.240 have the right to any public spaces? You've got to pick one. I, for one, believe that we ought to live
00:45:11.960 under the true one, the true anthropology, and the way that we lived in this country until about five
00:45:18.580 minutes ago. Which is why, let me state it one more time for those in the back, maybe they got a
00:45:24.520 little cotton in their ears, they didn't hear what I said. For the good of society, and especially for
00:45:29.940 the good of the poor people who are laboring and suffering under this delusion, transgenderism must
00:45:36.820 be eradicated from public life, the whole preposterous ideology at every level. Have I enunciated
00:45:46.440 properly, articulated myself, used proper diction? I think I have. The member block begins now. Head on
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