The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1205 - Dylan Mulvaney & Lib Colleges Try To Eradicate Me

00:00:00.000 The Department of Justice has just announced plans to indict an additional

00:00:03.660 1,000 people, more than 1,000 people, actually, on charges related to

00:00:08.880 January 6th, the worst day in the history of the whole world.

00:00:18.680 We know this because the DOJ sent a letter warning Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the D.C.

00:00:23.960 District Court to prepare for potentially another 1,200 defendants.

00:00:28.920 That, on top of the 1,000 people already charged for taking selfies in horn hats or whatever,

00:00:37.540 for smiling with Nancy Pelosi's lectern, for cracking a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda.

00:00:42.380 The timing is raising a lot of eyebrows as it follows directly on the heels of the House GOP

00:00:48.600 releasing security camera footage through Tucker Carlson that showed that most of the Democrats'

00:00:53.900 January 6th narrative was a lie. Not only was it not a violent insurrection, a coup d'etat led by a

00:01:05.280 Horn Hat guy, but the Horn Hat guy himself was actually escorted through the Capitol by the Capitol

00:01:11.640 Police. But that's why. Of course, our ruling class plans to arrest more dissidents now. The release of

00:01:23.060 the security camera footage humiliated the ruling class by debunking its false narrative, which means

00:01:30.480 that our rulers now have two options. Admit their dishonesty and give it up, or double down.

00:01:37.260 Which one did you think they were going to choose? Speaking of people being dishonest with the public

00:01:46.020 and with themselves, Dylan Mulvaney has just given me my Rockefeller Center debut. I didn't think I was

00:01:54.780 going to make it to Rockefeller Center. I didn't ever expect to be one of the Rockettes or anything like

00:01:59.200 that. But I have apparently debuted at Rockefeller Center thanks to Dylan Mulvaney's bizarre show,

00:02:04.920 which was not just weird and not just an attack on us. It actually tells you something,

00:02:09.480 I think, quite deep about Mr. Mulvaney and other people who suffer from his kind of confusion.

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00:03:28.780 Of course, people saying, why now? Why would people now, why would the DOJ now be arresting

00:03:34.260 more January 6thers when the narrative behind January 6th just collapsed? That's why.

00:03:41.260 Of course, they're doing that now. Because the narrative around January 6th and the way that

00:03:51.600 the federal government clamped down so hard on the January 6th protesters, even after they let BLM 0.96

00:03:56.760 off the hook for burning the country down for eight months, even after they let essentially all of the 0.96

00:04:01.440 illegal aliens off of the hook, even after they released criminals, spent years releasing criminals 0.57

00:04:06.620 and using COVID as the excuse, even after they've called to abolish prisons and reduce penalties for

00:04:13.500 criminals, why would they double down? It's a flex of power against political dissidents,

00:04:18.800 against anybody who dares to question the regime. So of course, they're going to double down now

00:04:25.440 because Tucker and the House GOP just humiliated them by proving them again to be liars. So of course, 0.96

00:04:33.460 that's going to happen now. The libs are going to wield political power and crush their enemies. 1.00

00:04:39.340 You're seeing this right now in Pittsburgh. I mentioned that I have this debate coming up

00:04:43.280 with a transgender identifying scholar, Professor McCloskey, who is a very distinguished scholar,

00:04:50.340 has three degrees from Harvard. Not that I would recommend three degrees from Harvard, but has three

00:04:56.900 degrees from Harvard, has dozens of academic publications, has half a dozen honorary doctorates.

00:05:01.140 The question is on transgenderism and he identifies as transgender. So presumably this will be a pretty 0.98

00:05:07.880 good debate. Of all of the big libs who are transgenderism advocates, who have begged to debate

00:05:15.940 me over the last couple of weeks, I thought, all right, let's pick the toughest one to beat.

00:05:20.140 Let's pick the most erudite. Let's have the debate in a way that's going to be the most effective and

00:05:25.780 present the strongest argument for transgenderism. And then the Pittsburgh admins and activists try

00:05:33.240 to shut that down in the name of supporting transgender identifying people, even though

00:05:37.080 half of the debate will be done by someone who identifies as transgender. There is a petition now

00:05:43.740 among the students. I think it's about 10,000 signatures trying to shut down this debate. And now

00:05:49.340 Pittsburgh legislators are trying to cancel me. Legislators in the city are calling for the

00:05:55.920 cancellation of this event. And the university is coming out against it too. The university

00:06:03.300 has said, look, we were essentially forced to hold this event because it's a public university,

00:06:08.380 but we hate it. The exact words from Pitt. We understand these events are toxic and hurtful for

00:06:14.200 many people in our university community. The presence of these speakers on our campus does not change the

00:06:18.260 university's unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. That commitment

00:06:23.020 includes steadfast support for those in our community who are negatively affected by these

00:06:27.460 upcoming events now and in the future. So put my debate aside. Maybe they'll cancel it. Maybe they

00:06:31.240 won't. I don't know. I think it'll be a very interesting debate. Go get tickets if they're still

00:06:35.020 available and you can be in the area. But put that aside for a second. This whole incident

00:06:43.920 is an example of the state taking aside. It's not just a private institution. It's not just some

00:06:53.940 activists. It's not the neutral public square where different voices can hash things out in the free

00:06:58.340 marketplace of ideas. This is the heavy hand of the state taking aside. The state through the Pitt

00:07:06.880 administration is saying, these events are toxic. Because this also includes an event from Cabot

00:07:13.160 Phillips. This also includes, there are some other events involved as well. And hurtful for many people.

00:07:18.820 They're toxic. They're saying, if you say that men and women are different and men can't secretly be

00:07:23.420 women and women can't secretly be men and men maybe shouldn't use the women's bathroom, you're toxic. 0.99

00:07:28.700 According to not just the activists, according to the state. Okay. I hope that these incidents, 0.87

00:07:39.600 especially this talk around transgenderism, puts the final nail in the coffin of this preposterous 1.00

00:07:46.080 idea that some squish conservatives had deluded themselves with, that the state is neutral. That

00:07:54.240 the political order can be neutral. That the public square can ever be neutral. That is not the

00:07:58.620 case. In fact, the beginning of the end for this idea, which is a relatively novel idea in American

00:08:05.860 politics, the right only really started to believe this over the last 30 years or so. The final nail in

00:08:11.140 the coffin came when David French, who was a conservative identifying writer, now he is most

00:08:16.820 certainly a liberal writer, when David French said the drag queen story hour is an example of one of the

00:08:22.560 blessings of liberty. And the conservative writer, Saurabh Amari, said, what? If that's a blessing of

00:08:28.400 liberty, then I've had enough liberty. Okay. I don't think that's what James Madison or the founding

00:08:32.780 fathers were intending by blessings of liberty. I don't think that they meant that perverts can

00:08:38.960 twerk for little toddlers at the library, that that would qualify. David French's idea was that the

00:08:46.320 public square is totally neutral, but that is never the case. And the transgender issue in particular

00:08:50.220 proves it because you've got two conflicting arguments for liberty. You've got two conflicting

00:08:57.220 demands for rights and freedom. The women are saying, we want the freedom and the right to our

00:09:03.580 own bathrooms and sports teams and everything else. The men who think that they're women say,

00:09:09.960 we demand to go into the women's bathroom and onto the women's sports teams. Only one of them can win. 1.00

00:09:18.360 If the men can go into the women's bathroom, then women don't have a right to a bathroom without men in 1.00

00:09:22.700 it. If the women have that right, then the men don't have the right to go in. Who decides? 0.99

00:09:30.620 Obviously, the state decides. It has to decide. That has always been true in every political

00:09:36.420 community for all of human history. And especially in the United States where the state, at least in

00:09:42.840 theory, is us because we're supposed to have self-government. So we, the people, are supposed

00:09:47.700 to be able to decide this. Increasingly, we're not able to decide it. And the people who decide it in

00:09:51.680 our country are activist judges or unaccountable bureaucrats. But that's at least in theory,

00:09:58.360 what's supposed to happen. In any case, don't delude yourself into thinking that the state is

00:10:03.520 going to be neutral. It won't. The state is going to do exactly what Pittsburgh is doing right now.

00:10:08.200 They're going to take sides. They're going to attack private citizens sometimes,

00:10:13.040 as Pittsburgh is doing now, is attacking a private citizen and calling a private citizen toxic

00:10:18.400 and calling conservatives in Pittsburgh and in Pennsylvania toxic if they believe

00:10:23.960 that men are men and women are women. The question is not, will the state be involved? Will the state

00:10:30.100 take a side? The state obviously has to be involved in certain fundamental political matters. Otherwise,

00:10:33.780 there's no point to there being any state at all. The question is going to be, which side is it

00:10:39.180 going to take? Which opinion is toxic? The opinion that boys are boys and girls are girls or the

00:10:45.220 opinion that if men have a desire to be a woman, they should lop off their body parts and we should 0.93

00:10:51.080 do it at a very young age and men should invade women's bathrooms and locker rooms whether the 1.00

00:10:54.920 women want it or not? Which is the toxic idea? I think we all know. Speaking of college, great report 1.00

00:11:00.720 out in the Wall Street Journal. High school seniors are recalibrating their options after the COVID

00:11:06.540 lockdowns, prompting an historic disengagement from school. And you know, I'm very pro-education. I

00:11:12.820 know a lot of conservatives say education's dumb and liberal education is stupid and don't go to 1.00

00:11:17.460 college or whatever. That's actually not my view. I'm very pro-liberal education. Some conservatives 1.00

00:11:21.180 will say, if you're going to study anything in college, study engineering. I don't think that's true.

00:11:24.280 I think the point of liberal education is to read old dusty books that have no obvious practical

00:11:30.580 application to any job or career or anything like that. I think the point is just cultivate

00:11:34.700 your rational will, make sense of your freedom, and learn the best of your culture. So I'm all

00:11:40.480 for that, but way too many people are going to college. And the journal writes, the nation's

00:11:45.660 half-century college for all model is now falling away toward a choice of either college or vocational

00:11:52.280 programs, including apprenticeships. In the past decade, college enrollment has declined by about 15%,

00:11:57.700 while the number of apprentices has increased by more than 50%. That's good. That's according to federal

00:12:04.080 data. And Robert Lerman, who is a labor economist at the Urban Institute and co-founder of Apprenticeships

00:12:11.080 for America. This is really good. I'm not just dissing college, even though so much of American higher

00:12:17.600 education has gone completely insane. But college in theory and in practice in a few places still in

00:12:22.540 America is a good thing. Can be a good thing. But not everything is for everyone. The libs always talk about

00:12:33.480 diversity and how great diversity is. They greatly overstate the importance and benefits of diversity.

00:12:41.540 But humanity is somewhat diverse. And not everything is for everyone.

00:12:49.180 So if you send people who ought not go to college to college, that is going to harm them and make the 0.94

00:13:00.740 college experience worse for everybody else. Because it's inevitably going to lead to a lowering of

00:13:05.860 standards. It's going to lead to a flooding of the administrative class with new babysitters, 1.00

00:13:13.500 basically, to mollify students who can't hack it in college. And it's going to raise costs. It's going

00:13:20.640 to create all sorts of problems that then will water down the college experience. And you're not going to

00:13:26.860 have people learning any practical skills. So this is the notion that was discussed with regard to

00:13:34.180 affirmative action by the Supreme Court. But it really applies well beyond affirmative action. It applies

00:13:38.780 to the whole idea that everybody needs to go to this one particular type of college. And the idea is

00:13:44.080 mismatch. That when you mismatch people and programs, it's going to be bad for everybody.

00:13:52.500 But if people go toward what they are suited for, what they show an aptitude for, what will lead them to

00:14:00.480 flourish, everybody is going to be better off. And by the way, if you go into an apprenticeship program,

00:14:05.660 if you start working at 18, you're one, you're going to learn a lot more hard skills,

00:14:09.840 almost certainly, than the people who go to college. But it's not like that means you won't

00:14:13.100 ever have a liberal education. You can get your liberal education while you're doing the

00:14:19.080 apprenticeship program. You can read. You can take courses. You can join reading groups and study

00:14:26.160 groups. Plenty of that happens. And that used to happen a lot more in America when there was a richer

00:14:30.940 and more diverse civil life, civil society, before the heavy hand of the total state came in and just

00:14:40.600 tried to homogenize everybody. You can do that. That can be a wonderful thing. There's a lot more

00:14:47.380 to life than just book learning. There's practical wisdom as well. So good stuff. Really, really love

00:14:52.740 this. There's such terrible news that going around these days, it's always nice to see something moving

00:14:58.200 a little bit in the right direction, the silver lining to the storm cloud of COVID. Speaking of

00:15:02.220 job training, some people in the most prominent jobs in America don't seem to know anything about

00:15:08.760 their own jobs. There's only one person who sits behind that resolute desk. And the decisions that

00:15:16.200 that person has to make are the decisions that nobody else in the country can make. And he's an

00:15:21.020 extraordinary leader. Right there. So Kamala Harris is obviously describing the job of the president. 0.92

00:15:29.040 But what's a little awkward here is Stephen Colbert had just asked her, what does the vice

00:15:33.960 president do? And so she gives this answer. There's only one person there, Joe Biden. He's so great.

00:15:38.420 He's such a wonderful leader. He's so great. And so the audience applauds, presumably because a sign

00:15:43.940 lit up, telling them to applaud. But then Stephen Colbert leans in.

00:15:49.460 It really is. It really is.

00:15:55.900 That's an excellent answer. And the question was, what is the job of the vice president?

00:16:02.080 And your answer is part of the job, I'm guessing.

00:16:04.880 Well, you know, my job is to do, I mean, for example, I'll tell you, I was recently in Munich at

00:16:10.820 the Munich Security Conference. And the job there was to stand up. And as you know,

00:16:17.320 most of my career, I spent as a prosecutor. And I declared that we, the United States of America,

00:16:24.120 believe that Russia has committed crimes against humanity. 0.50

00:16:27.940 So, and she goes on and on and on and on. And at no point, by my telling, does she ever answer the

00:16:34.760 question, what does the vice president do? This is not a trick question, Kamala. This is not a gotcha.

00:16:39.460 You're the vice president of the United States. You ought to be able to answer,

00:16:43.100 what does the vice president do? What does the vice president do? Well, the vice president

00:16:46.480 casts the tie-breaking vote in the Senate, resides over the Senate. The vice president of the United

00:16:52.420 States is one heartbeat away from the president and serves in a supporting role for the president

00:16:58.460 of the United States. The vice president raises money for the party of the president. That's an

00:17:03.120 unofficial role, but that's certainly one of the jobs. And what does she say? She goes,

00:17:06.160 the vice president is someone who, well, okay, I went, I took a trip to Germany, and my job there

00:17:13.000 was, you know, Putin's bad. Putin is really bad. So, yeah, she doesn't know what her job is.

00:17:24.280 Joe Biden, I'm not convinced, knows what his job is. And the job of the president is much more clearly

00:17:28.420 defined than the vice president. And Joe Biden's been in government for well over 50 years now at

00:17:33.900 the federal level. Neither of them know what the job is because they are convenience politicians.

00:17:45.200 I've long said there are two kinds of politicians, convenience politicians and conviction politicians.

00:17:50.740 Conviction politicians are the ones who go out with a vision. This is what I want the country to

00:17:55.680 look like. Convenience politicians are the ones who go out to just be the position and to get a post

00:18:02.580 office named after them and to have people applaud when they say platitudes. Biden and Harris are both

00:18:09.900 of that sort. I don't even mean to disparage them in particular. There are plenty of convenience

00:18:14.120 politicians on the Republican side too who just want to be something and go along and get along.

00:18:18.560 But they're not conviction politicians. That's why they have been so successful within the liberal

00:18:24.820 establishment. Kamala Harris is rather unimpressive. We don't need to get into all of the reasons that

00:18:29.640 she's had a successful political career. But one of them, I think, is that she's basically nothing. 0.91

00:18:34.360 I think it's the same thing with Joe Biden because they wake up in the morning, they lick their little

00:18:37.220 finger, they put it up in the air, and they figure out which way the wind is blowing, and that's fine.

00:18:40.900 They go where their handlers tell them to go. They don't even really know what their job is.

00:18:45.060 That's why the blob, the deep state, the bureaucracy, the liberal establishment, whatever you want to

00:18:50.800 call it, that's why it tends to gravitate toward those kinds of politicians because it's going to keep

00:18:55.920 rolling along, and they're not going to cause any trouble, and they're not going to be particularly

00:18:58.840 accountable to the people. Now, someone does know what the job is, and someone wants the job very,

00:19:03.500 very badly, apparently, and that would be Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:19:08.180 People were saying, you've been telling people you have to stay in your home. And like in Florida,

00:19:13.000 they were killing us because even in those early days, you know, when we were following federal

00:19:16.960 guidelines loosely, but we were following some, we were playing golf. I mean, the villages,

00:19:21.320 they're setting record for golf. People are boating, all this stuff. They were so mad at Florida for doing

00:19:25.560 the people on the beach, all this stuff. That was their position. You are killing people if you

00:19:29.880 leave your house. So then all these people are, like thousands of people are protesting.

00:19:34.100 2,000 of these epidemiologists write a letter saying, we do not condemn these protests because

00:19:40.100 of COVID. Indeed, we think they're vital for public health because they're fighting racism.

00:19:44.880 It's a bigger disease than COVID.

00:19:47.160 And so that's when I knew. This public health, this public health clan of people, they are sick.

00:19:55.560 I mean, they are, they are ideologically captured and these are not people that should be anywhere

00:20:00.620 near the levers of power. These are sick people. I actually got to ask Governor DeSantis once at a 0.99

00:20:06.160 dinner. I said, how did you know, how were you willing to take the political bet to reopen Florida?

00:20:12.920 Because forget about the public health threat for a second. Politicians govern in their own interest

00:20:18.360 to, so that they don't get thrown out of office. So I said, you know, if you got that wrong,

00:20:22.480 you would have had your complete political career destroyed. How were you confident enough to take

00:20:27.500 the bet? And he gave me a very simple answer. He said, I looked at the charts. I had top doctors

00:20:31.260 giving me the charts. I knew how viruses work. They go up, they plateau, they go down. It's very

00:20:35.020 simple. I was confident in that and that's what happened. And then you hear him explain here to

00:20:40.640 Glenn Beck, Governor DeSantis looks at all these public health officials who are making things up.

00:20:45.400 The moment that he saw the corruption of, stay in your homes, don't go to your grandmother's

00:20:50.240 funeral. Don't go to Christmas. Oh, but if you want to go burn down a courthouse for BLM, 0.99

00:20:55.020 that's important because whiteness is the real disease. He just said, this is sick. This is 1.00

00:20:58.840 obviously not based on any kind of epidemiological science. Okay, we're going to reopen.

00:21:06.660 Now, all of this matters because there's been a debate in the GOP for about six, seven years now.

00:21:13.880 And the two sides have been, should the GOP wield government power in a just way,

00:21:18.540 but effectively when we have the opportunity? Or should we not wield government power? Because

00:21:23.200 that's big government and big government's bad and we need a neutral sphere and we shouldn't push back

00:21:27.280 too hard. And the best government is the smallest government. It should fit in the size of into our

00:21:31.580 pockets. And that's that. Those are the two sides of the debate. You know which side I'm on. I wrote

00:21:35.160 a whole book about this and I talk about it every single day. Obviously, I think the conservatives need

00:21:39.060 to wield more power or we're just going to cede the whole ground to the libs, which is why Republicans

00:21:43.920 win, Democrats win. The libs agenda keeps advancing. So I said, yes, we need to wield government power.

00:21:49.240 Most of the GOP previously and much of, if not most of the conservative movement said the opposite.

00:21:54.880 Don't wield too much power, light touch, let it go. Let's stay neutral. Okay. I think it's pretty

00:21:59.240 clear which side is winning right now. I think in terms of the argument, I think our side has won

00:22:04.460 the debate. And so you've got two candidates in particular articulating the view that I've been

00:22:09.860 advocating. That would be Trump and DeSantis. Actually others in the GOP field as well. But because

00:22:16.900 they're the two top candidates, those are the two that are really getting these ideas out there right

00:22:22.660 now. They're both on the same side of that question. Wield more government power. Trump was the one as

00:22:28.400 a candidate and as an elected politician who was really breaking through here, who was really getting

00:22:34.360 this message across. So the question when you're deciding between Trump and DeSantis then becomes

00:22:38.920 not so much what do they believe, where are the shades, where do they fall on the issues.

00:22:43.140 They agree on the issues. They even agree on the medium. They even agree on the tactics of wielding

00:22:49.860 government power. The question it seems then becomes who can most effectively wield state power

00:22:57.960 against our opponents and in favor of justice and in favor of the good and in favor of a good

00:23:05.740 normal country. That's the question. Who can do it best? Who do you trust to do it the best?

00:23:13.740 That's pretty simple stuff. That's like, that's democracy 101. And we forget that sometimes

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00:24:36.280 from Ryan who said, when the libs start their sentence with, let's be clear, an absurd and

00:24:42.280 bold lie is about to follow. That's so true. As a rule, not saying there aren't exceptions to it,

00:24:47.700 as a rule, when someone says, let's be clear, let me be perfectly clear. Obama always loved this.

00:24:52.760 Let me be perfectly clear. Or when someone says, hey, look, honestly, hey, to be honest,

00:24:58.700 what that tells you is they weren't being honest before. They weren't being clear before. They

00:25:06.000 make a habit out of being dishonest. They make a habit out of not being clear in what they're saying.

00:25:11.200 And so maybe you ought to be a little skeptical of the other things they say too.

00:25:14.860 Speaking of not being very clear, I made my Rockefeller Center debut this week. That was in

00:25:22.180 Dylan Mulvaney's show. You may have seen this on some of the other shows, just very briefly in case

00:25:27.040 you didn't catch it. Here we are. I feel supported. And you know what? I'm feeling

00:25:35.000 lucky. Let's Google my name. Dylan Mulvaney is intentionally degrading women every time he does 0.55

00:25:40.960 this woman face minstrel show routine. He is insulting and demeaning them and doing it on purpose 1.00

00:25:47.120 and profiting off of it. And he doesn't care. Documenting his creepy fetishized version of what

00:25:53.920 means to be a girl. Well, Dylan Mulvaney has had some surgery to make his face look more like

00:25:58.100 Bruce Jenner's. Dylan Mulvaney has just given the best proof yet that transgenderism broadly,

00:26:05.680 or at the very least the type of transgenderism that he suffers from, is a sexual fetish. 0.96

00:26:11.080 Dylan is not a woman. 0.99

00:26:12.560 I got a threat there. Okay.

00:26:14.680 I saw a lot of them here. I did. I showed it.

00:26:17.420 What? Why would you give them even a second of your big day?

00:26:20.540 Well, these are the people I have to deal with on a regular basis, so I thought I should include

00:26:24.660 them in the evening.

00:26:25.920 Okay, there it is. These are the people I have to deal with on a regular basis, so I've just got to,

00:26:29.420 I thought I should include them. That's true. That's true. So he's putting himself in the

00:26:33.260 position of the victim. I have to deal with these people when they criticize the idea that I'm not

00:26:36.900 really a woman. Or when they point out that I'm not really a woman, they criticize the idea that

00:26:41.020 I am really a woman. That's true. That's something you have to deal with. Women have to deal with you 1.00

00:26:47.520 and other men invading their bathrooms and locker rooms and taking away their trophies.

00:26:52.900 That's something they have to deal with. We have to deal with the promotion of this absurdity and this

00:26:58.240 highly dangerous and obviously false ideology being pushed everywhere in society, including and

00:27:06.240 especially on our children, even in elementary schools. That's something we have to deal with.

00:27:09.740 So we all have to deal with stuff and we've got to figure out what's true and what's false and how

00:27:13.480 we want to live together. Okay, but regardless, that's not the most interesting part of the show.

00:27:19.260 It's an honor that Mr. Mulvaney believes that we at the Daily Wire, they played everyone from the

00:27:23.860 Daily Wire, at least who has a daily show. I don't think they hit Drew because Drew does once a

00:27:28.360 week now and I guess hasn't talked about Dylan Mulvaney as much. They hit Ben in there too,

00:27:32.380 though. Okay, I guess it's an honor that Dylan Mulvaney thinks we're the ones leading the fight

00:27:39.380 against this transgender ideology. That's not the most interesting part. The most interesting part 1.00

00:27:43.240 is when Dylan Mulvaney sings later about his identity. I don't think that he made a mistake

00:27:50.380 with me in that maybe one day I will actually be grateful for being trans, that this isn't some curse.

00:28:00.040 Okay, so this, which is obviously performed, but maybe it's coming from a sincere place.

00:28:04.640 He says, I don't think God made a mistake with me.

00:28:09.620 Right. Right. That's the point. God did not make a mistake with you.

00:28:20.040 There is sin and death in the world as a result of the fall of man. There is all sorts of suffering

00:28:26.100 suffering and that's not because God hates you. It's because of the abuse of free will and it's

00:28:34.220 because there is evil in the world that comes as a result of freedom and that comes as a result of

00:28:39.600 the fault of the fall. But oh, happy fault that one for us so great, so glorious, and redeemer.

00:28:42.840 The story has a happy ending. That's true. We can go through all of salvation history.

00:28:46.780 But God did not make a mistake with you and your being. And the transgender ideology says, 0.99

00:28:55.240 I am mistaken. Not I am mistaken in my thought, but there is a mistake with me.

00:29:00.460 I'm a man, but I really am supposed to be a woman. No, you're a man and you're supposed to be a man.

00:29:05.680 And you might suffer from any number of confusing or tempting thoughts, but you are a man.

00:29:14.880 And so when he sings about this, this longing for God, he's trying to fill something in a deficiency

00:29:24.340 in his true desires. And he's putting it in all the wrong places. He knows that something is a

00:29:36.380 little bit off. And it gets back to a point that my priest made years ago, which is God is I am who I

00:29:43.440 am. That's what he says his name is when Moses speaks to him in the burning bush. He says, who

00:29:48.400 shall I tell them you are? And God says, I am who I am. God is being himself, right? I am. Christ says

00:29:56.940 before Abraham was, I am. When you ground your identity in God and accept the consequences that 0.88

00:30:05.880 come from that about the nature of the human soul, the nature of the whole human person,

00:30:09.640 our duties and obligations in the world and our obligations toward reality and all the rest of it,

00:30:15.400 when you ground your identity in God, you will know who you are. When you do not ground your

00:30:22.400 identity in I am that I am, when you do not ground your identity, when you turn away, you will be left 0.87

00:30:29.260 with a pathetic question, which is who am I? And you will seek to fill it with all sorts of absurd 0.71

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00:30:58.160 Ben, I can smell weed right now. Right now. Are we going to just sit here?

00:31:08.320 Ben! There's a difference between innocent and good. Ah, poor. Let me think about that for a couple

00:31:14.140 of months. Give me the Talmud, because if it's not in there, I wonder what the hell's going on.

00:31:20.940 Can you smell it? I'm not going to be the one who says that weed is kosher. I'm 20 years clean.

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00:31:28.200 I thought it was you and Rogan. I've been with Rogan.

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00:32:23.240 I'm going to try to fly through these today because I know we're tight on time. Take it away.

00:32:28.020 Hi, Mr. Knowles. I'm a longtime Daily Wire subscriber and Michael Knowles show listener.

00:32:32.980 I'm reaching out for advice once again. In the past, you have told me to tell my boyfriend to

00:32:37.360 kick rocks. Well, I didn't listen and it has not gone well for me. He has yet to pop the question

00:32:43.640 and he's still riding on this idea that there's nothing good in marriage for men. How do you suggest

00:32:49.340 young women navigate relationships with men that see no value in marriage? Andrew Tate,

00:32:55.180 Just Pearly Things, the host of the Whatever podcast, they all talk about how women should 1.00

00:32:59.100 be more traditional and respectable. I think women are being more traditional and respectable, 0.73

00:33:04.260 but they get nothing in return. We could be the best homemakers, caretakers, or even make a lot of

00:33:10.340 money, but still end up 30 and unmarried because today's bachelors just have no interest in marriage.

00:33:16.860 What's your take on how we got here and how we should move forward? Thanks.

00:33:22.400 How should you move forward? You should tell your boyfriend to do the thing that he wants to do with

00:33:28.200 you with himself. You should dump your obviously loser boyfriend. It's not just that he doesn't 1.00

00:33:37.320 want to pop the question right now. If this guy is telling you, no, I just don't see what men get

00:33:41.880 out of marriage. I don't want to get married. He's a freaking loser. Dump him. He will be a bad

00:33:47.800 husband. Maybe he shapes up. Maybe he reforms. Maybe, okay, tell him to go take care of that.

00:33:53.500 You're going to be dating real men, not that guy. I hope you take my advice this time. You know,

00:34:00.100 I hate to say I told you so, but good grief. Yeah, that's true. Women should be more traditional and 1.00

00:34:06.000 respectable and virtuous. I mean, that's it. We look to tradition because it gives us a good model

00:34:11.220 of what a virtuous life can look like. But it's going to look a little different into the future

00:34:17.420 because circumstances change. But you should do the right thing as best you can. There's going to be

00:34:22.140 temptation. There's sin in the world. You're going to fall. You're going to screw up. That's why we have

00:34:25.580 repentance and confession and atonement and standards of virtue and vice. So yeah, women should 1.00

00:34:33.340 be more modest and more clear-minded and more courageous and all those ordinary things. And

00:34:41.920 if the men are not going to rise to the occasion, go find a new man. Men have a leadership role in

00:34:52.280 marriage and in relationships. That's true. But men follow a fair bit too. Okay. And so set the tone

00:34:59.280 and then if the guy's not going to grow up, then, you know, dump him. Get a real man. Dump that zero.

00:35:05.860 Get yourself a hero. Okay. Next question. Hey, Michael. Sitting here enjoying a lovely

00:35:14.180 leftist tears tumbler. Turns out the leftist tears are quite delicious when paired with a lovely bourbon.

00:35:22.280 Doing some thinking. And I was wanting to get your take on something fairly light. Public execution.

00:35:33.480 Do you think in our civilized society, in our modern Western culture, do you think that there's a place

00:35:40.660 for public execution? I'm sort of struck by the fact that we don't tend to see the, I guess,

00:35:52.160 lethal injections now. And I don't know that the deterrence is truly there for criminals with our

00:36:00.600 current handling and implementation of the death penalty. So love to hear your thoughts. Thanks.

00:36:07.740 Certainly. Yeah, I think that would do a lot to bring back the deterrent effect of capital punishment,

00:36:13.760 certainly. But furthermore, it would be good because people just don't see death,

00:36:18.100 period, anymore. We used to see death. I'm not saying we want more people to die.

00:36:24.000 But we need to recognize that death does happen. We try to run away from death. We try to hide death.

00:36:28.440 We hide aging. We pack ourselves full of cosmetics. We pack ourselves full of all sorts of surgeries to

00:36:35.060 pretend that we're not aging. And then when people look like they're about to die, we shove them off into

00:36:40.020 special little centers, hospice and old age homes. And we try to just separate them. When they do die,

00:36:47.020 we don't really do open casket wakes anymore. We don't do proper funerals anymore. We do these brief

00:36:53.360 little celebrations of life. We burn up the body as quickly as possible. We ignore the fact that death

00:36:58.120 has happened. Then sometime later, maybe you will have a celebration of life ceremony where you

00:37:02.460 basically just gather with your friends and have dinner to try to process death. But it's a death that

00:37:07.080 you won't look in the face. And so we live our lives trying to put it out of our head. But death

00:37:12.760 is very important. It's one of the four final things, death, judgment, heaven, and hell. You

00:37:17.180 are living your life as a preparation to die and you need to be prepared for your death. In the olden 0.80

00:37:23.060 times, people would pray for a good death by which they meant a death that they saw coming, that they

00:37:29.700 could prepare for, that wasn't sudden. Today, people pray for a good death, meaning they don't want to

00:37:35.860 know what's happening. They basically want a piano to fall on their head so that they're just walking

00:37:39.440 along one day with their Frappuccino, having a lovely time thinking about, I don't know, whatever

00:37:44.540 they just saw on Instagram. And then it's all over and they think they go to oblivion. They don't think

00:37:48.020 that the soul persists after natural death. And so our view of death is just so perverse now.

00:37:55.920 And we're so separated from it that, yeah, public executions would also help us to have a little

00:38:04.140 memento mori. Of course. Next question. Dear Mr. Knowles, this is Murder of Crows. As a voting

00:38:11.240 far-right conservative, can you recommend a strategic sequence of topical battlegrounds, such as listed in

00:38:20.080 priorities, eradication of transgenderism, eradication of homosexuality, eradication of divorce, and in

00:38:30.100 my opinion, eradication of evolutionary ideology. Thank you very much. You're a little bit scattered

00:38:39.100 in your plans and you're a little bit vague in your plans, but fair enough. I mean, you see that

00:38:46.140 the libs have taken a lot of ground in the culture and we should take some ground back. You're missing

00:38:50.280 a key part of it, though, which is when I called to eradicate transgenderism, I called to eradicate it 1.00

00:38:55.620 from public life. And I think this is the real key here. And this is what's really persuasive

00:39:01.400 to people. And it's the reason that the libs reacted so strongly against my call for it.

00:39:07.460 We're not proposing that we go in, drill a hole in some confused man's head, find the parts of his

00:39:14.340 brain that are firing off to make him think that he's a woman and pulling those parts out. Nobody

00:39:19.180 is proposing that. Nobody is saying that the man can't put on women's undergarments in his own

00:39:25.640 bedroom, that we're going to send the purity police in to arrest him for that. We're saying he can't go

00:39:30.520 into the women's bathroom. That's what it means. That's what it means to eradicate transgenderism from 1.00

00:39:35.820 public life. It means it can't be taught in schools to little kids. It means it can't be

00:39:39.680 promoted as a matter of your employment, okay? It means we're not going to accept it as a matter

00:39:46.060 of public life. And if eccentric people on the fringes want to entertain weird ideas, that's fine.

00:39:50.640 You mentioned homosexuality. Again, the ality of it all, I just wonder, you're not going to eradicate 1.00

00:39:58.460 disordered desires. Disordered desires are just a fact of a fallen world. But you could

00:40:05.420 recognize the meaning of marriage again. We only redefine marriage as a matter of public law in very

00:40:11.300 recent years, and it's had disastrous consequences for marriage broadly and for the raising of

00:40:16.680 children and all the rest of it. So you could just say, no, we're just going to say that there is such

00:40:20.100 a thing as marriage, and marriage involves sexual difference, and that's that, okay? You mention 0.74

00:40:25.220 evolution. You don't want the, again, with evolution, there are like a thousand versions of

00:40:29.740 evolution. And so, but you say, okay, I don't want this to be taught in schools. Well, one way to do

00:40:34.060 it is to say, okay, in this school, in this community, funded by these people, we're not

00:40:40.640 going to teach Lamarckian evolution. We're not going to teach Darwin, we're going to teach Lamarck,

00:40:45.180 or we're not going to teach Lamarck, we're going to teach, I don't know, some non-evolutionary,

00:40:48.460 older theory, or whatever it is. The public life is the important thing here, because I think

00:40:52.540 people are going to agree with you and say, yeah, you're right, we don't need, I don't need to see

00:40:56.400 this stuff, okay? If, you know, if a guy wants to put on women's underwear in his closet, you know,

00:41:03.520 okay, whatever. He shouldn't, but like, fine. But, but if he's going to bring it out into public

00:41:07.740 life, then we have a say over it, because we're supposed to have a self-government. We have a

00:41:13.300 great member blog coming up. That would be with a man who you may have seen on social media. His name

00:41:18.300 is Dave Dana. Dave was very, very overweight. His weight was somewhere around 420 pounds.

00:41:28.280 420, nice. But it wasn't nice, and he knew that it wasn't nice. So he said, I want to lose weight.

00:41:33.460 I'm going to say no to body positivity, this body positivity movement that encourages people to be

00:41:38.280 unhealthy. Really, body negativity, if you ask me. And he's been hitting the gym, and he's been getting

00:41:44.600 a ton of support from some of the biggest figures in, in, among celebrities, among fitness people,

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 17, 2023

Ep. 1205 - Dylan Mulvaney & Lib Colleges Try To Eradicate Me

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