The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1208 - DeSantis Hints At A YUGE Announcement

00:00:00.000 Ron DeSantis has reportedly told Piers Morgan in an interview to be released Thursday that he has

00:00:06.300 what it takes to beat Joe Biden. And no matter what you think about Ron DeSantis, I think just

00:00:14.280 about everyone has to admit that he is right, since pretty much anything can beat Biden these

00:00:20.240 days, from bicycles to staircases to multi-syllabic words, as the president showed us

00:00:27.100 yesterday during a speech in honor of National Poetry Day. Richard Blanco returned to a poem he

00:00:35.640 wrote from the second inaugural of Barack in Maine, a poem won today. It says, and always one moon like

00:00:43.680 a silent drum tapping at every rooftop and every window of every county, country. Let me start this

00:00:53.620 over again. I'm getting so intimidated by you being here. And always one moon like a silent

00:01:02.560 drum tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country, county, county, all of us facing the

00:01:10.800 stars. Hope, a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it together.

00:01:16.520 If the country is waiting for Joe Biden to name it, then America is in even worse shape than I thought

00:01:25.980 that it was. But Ron DeSantis is not waiting. He reportedly told Piers Morgan, if I were to run,

00:01:31.300 I'm running against Biden. Like we, Trump and I, are competing for the Republican, potentially. I get

00:01:37.700 that. But ultimately, you know, the guy I'm going to focus on is Biden, because I think he's failed the

00:01:42.700 country. I think the country wants a change. I think they want a fresh start and a new direction.

00:01:46.740 And so we'll be very vocal about that. That's what DeSantis said verbatim. He's running. And he has to

00:01:54.560 run. DeSantis' final term as governor is up in 2026, two years before the next election, after which he

00:02:01.740 will quite likely be yesterday's news. There is no waiting until 2028. If DeSantis passes it up now,

00:02:09.460 like Chris Christie did in 2012, it is never coming back. DeSantis is lagging Trump, but he's

00:02:16.080 within striking distance. And perhaps even more important, should he beat Trump and secure the

00:02:21.200 nomination, he will almost certainly be running against a Democrat who can no longer reliably

00:02:26.220 speak or even read. This may or may not be Ron DeSantis' moment. But if he is ever going to have

00:02:33.960 a moment, it's now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:39.460 Welcome back to the show. We've got so much coming up. As part of our national identity crisis that

00:02:52.040 we're all going through, there is a man who positively lost it in a fast food restaurant

00:02:57.360 because someone misgendered him, allegedly. We will delve into the depths of the madness.

00:03:05.140 First, though, I want to delve into the depths of the political madness that we've got.

00:03:09.500 President Biden couldn't get through the poem. The poem, poem one, Biden zero. Biden also could

00:03:15.120 not pronounce the name of a new monument that he is inaugurating.

00:03:18.960 I'm proud to use my authority under the Antiquities Act to establish the, and I want you to know it's a

00:03:27.620 big deal. The Havana Qua May. I'm having trouble. Thank you. I got it.

00:03:38.600 This is a really, and I want you to know it's a really big deal, the thing that we're doing that

00:03:43.500 I'm just reading about now. We're inaugurating, we're naming this mountain, this new national

00:03:48.720 monument is a. What he was trying to say is the Aviqua May, which is the Mojave name for Spirit

00:04:01.420 Mountain in Southern Nevada. This site apparently is sacred to tribes, including the Paiuti and the

00:04:07.580 Chema Wavy, and it provides a habitat for a bunch of different species. I have nothing against the

00:04:14.820 Paiuti. I've got nothing against the Chema Wavy. I've got nothing against the Mojave or any of the

00:04:20.680 other Indian tribes in America. This trend, though, of naming monuments and national places for

00:04:30.980 veneration after cultures other than our own is very troubling because what it represents is a loss

00:04:39.820 of confidence in our own culture, a loss of affection for our own culture, an embracing of

00:04:46.220 this preposterous premise that America is evil, our civilization is evil, we stole the land, we killed

00:04:53.700 all people, we're the worst people that have ever walked the earth, and so we need to negate our 0.97

00:04:59.340 culture. We need to concede our culture, and we need to just embrace every other culture under the sun.

00:05:05.180 This is not how the Mojave would operate. This is not how the Paiuti would operate. This is not how

00:05:11.320 the Chema Wavy would operate. This is why I always think it's so preposterous when you see people write

00:05:16.240 in their email signatures now. Liberals will do this. They'll say, sincerely, John. P.S. I hereby

00:05:23.520 acknowledge that I am on occupied land from the Hamahooki peoples that lived here 500 years ago and

00:05:30.280 whatever. Because the question that you always have to ask is, okay, this land was previously occupied

00:05:35.220 by the Hamahooki peoples. Well, who did the Hamahooki peoples take it from? This is what I've never

00:05:40.200 understood about giving the land back to the Indians. Who are you going to give it back to? Are we going

00:05:45.420 to give parts of the southwest United States back to the Comanche? Or are we going to give it back to 1.00

00:05:51.720 the Apache from whom the Comanche took the land? Or are we going to give it back to whichever Native 1.00

00:05:56.020 American group the Apache took the land from? This is what's so crazy about Mount Rushmore.

00:06:01.680 We're told that Mount Rushmore is a terrible desecration of land that was terribly sacred

00:06:07.020 to the, I think it's the Lakota is who claims that they had that land. But the Lakota had taken that

00:06:12.960 land as recently as 1776. What about the people that they took the land from? This is a big problem.

00:06:21.000 And it's now infecting all of our national monuments, not just naming mountains after a

00:06:26.640 Native tribe. Think about even the Martin Luther King monument that was established a few years ago.

00:06:34.280 Not saying it's a problem intrinsically with Martin Luther King or anything like that, but the point of

00:06:39.060 the monument is that it's an unfinished monument, that Martin Luther King is emerging out of this

00:06:44.320 monument. It's unfinished because America's unfinished because it's still a rotten, evil place. So you're not

00:06:49.520 even celebrating anything. It's a monument to resentment. It's not even a monument to Martin

00:06:54.180 Luther King. It's a monument to resentment. It's a monument to progressivism. It's a monument to

00:07:00.800 detract from American history and the American story and even the American present. That's the

00:07:08.140 point of that monument. It's a monument that represents a loss of faith in the country and of

00:07:13.880 us as a people. Compare that to Mount Rushmore. What's Mount Rushmore? We go to a mountain that nobody was

00:07:18.160 really using and we go blow up parts of it and carve our founding fathers and Teddy Roosevelt

00:07:23.040 on the face of the mountain. That's cool. That represents a country that believes in itself

00:07:28.520 and that is growing. But we're depressed now. We don't believe in our own culture. Our culture

00:07:33.740 is depressing because our modern religion is depressing. The weird new kooky religions that 1.00

00:07:38.860 we've taken on. The weird Albigensian gender religion that we've taken on. The idea that our 0.62

00:07:46.780 body and soul are in opposition to one another. The weird environmental religion we've taken on

00:07:51.000 which suggests that we all have to give up our most cherished goods and sacrifice them to Mother

00:07:58.280 Gaia. And if we just stop producing and if we just stop procreating and if we just stop

00:08:02.740 living our lives, then Mother Earth will be happy and we'll save the planet from imminent

00:08:08.060 destruction. That is probably the most prominent fake religion that is animating liberal policies. 0.69

00:08:15.420 And who is the prophetess of that religion? Who is the high priestess of that religion? 0.86

00:08:20.880 Who is the secular saint of that religion? You know who it is. It's Saint Greta of the

00:08:24.400 Blessed Sailboat. Now for many, many years now, as I have called her Saint Greta of the Blessed

00:08:29.400 Sailboat, for many, many years now, as I've pointed out, that global warming constitutes

00:08:33.840 less a scientific observation about the world and much more a fake false religion. People have said,

00:08:41.200 that's crazy, Michael. That's awful. You're wrong. You're an idiot. You're ignorant. You don't know the

00:08:46.040 science. Okay. Well, you know, I hate to say I told you so. We just got a little evidence for my

00:08:51.320 theory, which is that the University of Helsinki has decided that it will confer an honorary doctorate

00:08:57.440 on Greta. Saint Greta Thunberg. Now, are they going to give her a doctorate in geology? Are they

00:09:05.780 going to give her a doctorate in climatology? Whatever that is. Are they going to give her a

00:09:10.340 doctorate in meteorology? Are they going to give her a doctorate even in biology? No. They're going to 0.92

00:09:15.880 give her a doctorate in theology because she is a religious figure for the false religion of 1.00

00:09:23.880 environmentalism. That will happen on June 9th, 2023. I have never been happier to see somebody

00:09:30.900 receive an honorary doctorate because this honorary doctorate proves that everything that I and

00:09:38.480 everything that you have been saying about environmentalism and Saint Greta in particular

00:09:43.680 has been true. Has been true. That's what this is about. It's about a new religion to get rid of our 1.00

00:09:50.080 old religion, Christianity. This is a new, weird, secular, liberal religion to animate and to 0.98

00:09:55.700 motivate all of the social upheaval that they have been trying to undertake and that they have largely

00:10:01.480 successfully undertaken. Speaking of children, there's a great new law in Texas, which we'll get

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00:11:16.920 is simply smarter wireless. Great new law coming out of Texas. This is called the Texas Millstone Act.

00:11:25.860 The Millstone Act, wonderfully named, would prohibit gender mutilation procedures for people under the

00:11:34.500 age of 26. The Texas scorecard says, as more people have been taken advantage of by greedy physicians,

00:11:42.380 the Texas Millstone Act would help protect innocent people from these life-altering procedures.

00:11:48.960 Love it. It's a great idea. Obviously, the transgender butchery should be banned for people under 26, 1.00

00:11:58.800 without question. But it's really just a good start, because the gender reassignment butchery should 1.00

00:12:06.400 be banned for everybody, for a number of reasons. One, you know I don't really trust social science,

00:12:12.660 but in as much as we can rely on social science, the largest data set on satisfaction post-gender

00:12:20.080 reassignment surgery shows it does not improve mental health outcomes. And on at least one score,

00:12:25.500 on the score of anxiety, it would appear to have made those underlying conditions worse.

00:12:32.580 So from a social scientific perspective, it doesn't work. From an anthropological perspective,

00:12:36.500 it's absurd, because men cannot really be women, and women cannot really be men.

00:12:40.620 That puts forward a false human nature that does not fall in line with reality.

00:12:47.840 From a political perspective, and the perspective of culture and tradition, it's obviously awful,

00:12:53.780 because the moment that you allow one deluded person to present himself as a woman in public,

00:13:01.340 and demand all the rights and privileges of women, then you've abolished women's bathrooms, 1.00

00:13:05.600 then you've abolished same-sex schools, then you've abolished girls' sports teams,

00:13:09.920 and you've abolished every special right and space that women have. The minute you allow one person 1.00

00:13:15.500 of any age to pretend to be the opposite sex in public life, all of that's over for women. They 1.00

00:13:23.360 lose all of it. They can no longer expect to have any space or right in public that is exclusive to

00:13:31.600 them and not for men. And it's called the Millstone Act because of the verse from the gospel, in which

00:13:40.900 Christ says, whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in me to sin, it would be better for

00:13:48.300 him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck. Now, this verse is often invoked to describe

00:13:55.560 direct child abuse, as if it said, whoever harms one of these little ones. It's often invoked when

00:14:02.880 it comes to abortion. It's often invoked when it comes to the transgender surgeries or any other kind

00:14:07.620 of child abuse. But the verse is not actually about direct child abuse. The verse is about scandal.

00:14:17.100 It's sometimes translated as whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble.

00:14:20.500 The Douay-Rheims translation says, he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believes 0.98

00:14:26.720 in me, it would be better for him for a millstone to be hanged around his neck. It's about scandal. 0.96

00:14:31.320 And so if it's about scandal, then you have to ban the surgery for everybody. Because what is

00:14:38.860 scandalous is not when you directly go in and trans a kid. What is scandalous is when anybody is 1.00

00:14:45.480 permitted to indulge this falsehood in public? That scandalizes the child. That's a stumbling block

00:14:52.580 for the child on his way to maturity and education and understanding reality. So it's a good start,

00:14:59.680 but you've got to take it to its logical conclusion. Even the logical conclusion of the name,

00:15:04.880 the Millstone Act. Right. It's about scandal. And we have the right to take action against scandal.

00:15:12.160 We always have in America. We always have in every society in the history of the world.

00:15:18.600 We have the right to public standards and norms. To protect the children, certainly,

00:15:24.600 but to protect everybody. We have a right to stand up against obscenity. This is the point of my book,

00:15:29.520 Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available now.

00:15:33.000 Conservatives need to get a lot more comfortable speaking in explicitly religious terms.

00:15:38.520 For one, it works. Okay? It works. And the libs know this. And the libs speak in religious terms.

00:15:48.100 Conservatives got a wrong idea. Sometime after the 90s, conservatives got a wrong idea that the

00:15:52.380 religious right is ineffective. And we need to stop thumping our Bibles and speaking in religious 1.00

00:15:58.520 terms. Let's just talk about taxes or whatever. No. The issues on which conservatives have spoken in

00:16:07.520 explicitly moral and religious terms are the only issues we've won on. There are two issues conservatives

00:16:14.040 have won on in recent decades. And as far as I can tell, only two. Abortion and guns. The Second 0.68

00:16:20.160 Amendment. And in both of those cases, we speak in explicitly religious terms. Obviously, an abortion, 0.61

00:16:25.680 the right to life given to us by God. And even on the right to guns through the Second Amendment,

00:16:30.440 because that derives from a right to self-defense, which is evident from the natural law. We have a right

00:16:34.680 to preserve our own lives and to defend ourselves. Those are the issues. On all the other issues where

00:16:40.040 we've rejected the religious language, we've completely lost. On marriage, on immigration,

00:16:47.220 on foreign policy, on the way the economy works, on everything. Okay? So we need to get a lot more

00:16:52.660 comfortable with that. The libs do it. That's why one of their most popular public figures, St. Greta Thunberg, 1.00

00:16:58.540 is about to be given a doctorate in theology. And it's resonating. It's resonating not just with the

00:17:04.680 right and not just with the far left. It's resonating with people in the middle. It's resonating

00:17:08.540 even with center-left people. Tulsi Gabbard just went on TV to explain what drove her away from the 1.00

00:17:15.720 Democrat Party. And it wasn't just foreign policy. And it wasn't just the corruption of the Clintons.

00:17:19.880 It was the central issue. You see this erosion of this spiritual foundation of our country

00:17:28.020 as a direct consequence of those who are trying to erase God from just about every facet of our

00:17:35.620 public lives. This is one of the main reasons why I chose to leave the Democratic Party, because I saw

00:17:40.520 increasingly how not only were they trying to erase God or any mention of God or attacking people of

00:17:47.940 faith, attacking people of spirituality, especially Christians, you see these attacks and you see the

00:17:53.280 consequences in the direction, unfortunately, that much of our country is headed in and the damage

00:17:59.580 it's causing to families, to children, to our communities, to our policymakers, many of whom think

00:18:06.440 that they are God and are trying to control us in every possible way. Exactly. I mean, that's been the

00:18:12.620 error in human society going back to the fall, going back to the Garden of Eden, ye shall be as gods.

00:18:16.980 It's the error, the ex-communist Whitaker Chambers pointed out, that motivates communism, that we

00:18:22.240 shall be as gods. And it motivates leftism more broadly, that we're going to control the whole world.

00:18:27.340 If we don't like the circumstances of reality, we're going to deny them. We're going to do everything

00:18:34.100 we can to change them, even down to our own identity. We will liberate ourselves not just from

00:18:38.100 the constraints of our natural environment. We will liberate ourselves from our very own identities.

00:18:42.940 If you're a man and you don't like that you're a man, you can change your name. You can refer to

00:18:46.460 your true name as a dead name. It's a sort of ritual suicide of your identity. You will take

00:18:53.320 on a new identity. You'll change your body. You'll be a completely different person by killing the person

00:18:58.100 that you actually are, calling that an old dead person. You will liberate yourself even from that. 1.00

00:19:03.180 We shall be as gods. Exactly what Tulsi Gabbard is saying. And that is an unappealing religious 1.00

00:19:13.660 vision. Okay? The conservative religious vision is a lot better. Hey, be grateful. Give thanks to God.

00:19:22.280 Accept reality. Accept who you are. Get to know the creator who made you in his image.

00:19:27.320 Much, much, much better. Way better than the Libs religious vision at this point, 0.84

00:19:31.640 in as much as they're speaking in explicitly religious terms, is basically, as Tulsi Gabbard

00:19:36.320 implies, give us all the power and do some weird sex stuff. This was what John Kirby, the National

00:19:43.660 Security Council spokesman, just said at the White House the other day. He said that LGBT,

00:19:49.500 LMNOP ideology is now a key aspect of American foreign policy.

00:19:57.500 President Biden has been nothing but consistent about his belief, foundational belief in human rights

00:20:05.680 and LGBTQ plus rights are human rights. And we, again, back to the earlier question,

00:20:13.300 are never going to shy away, be bashful about speaking up for those rights and for individuals

00:20:19.180 to live as they deem fit, as they want to live. And that's something that's a core part of our

00:20:24.420 foreign policy and it will remain so. That's a core part of our foreign policy.

00:20:29.740 Transgenderism is a core part of our foreign policy.

00:20:34.200 Then call me an isolationist, I guess. I've never considered myself an isolationist. I think

00:20:40.540 that great nations and empires need to be involved around the world. That's just a fact of politics and

00:20:46.480 might not be a happy fact, but it is what it is. And so we have a responsibility and we have

00:20:51.920 a privilege in some ways to throw our weight around in the world. But what is our weight?

00:20:58.920 If throwing our weight around in the world and maintaining a world order meant truth, justice,

00:21:03.100 and the American way, great. If throwing our weight around in the world meant what it traditionally has

00:21:08.940 in our civilization, which is Christendom, a Christian civilization, great. That's what it meant until 0.94

00:21:15.040 60, 70 years ago, even more recently, probably. But if throwing our weight around in the world,

00:21:23.060 if spreading our values, if American hegemony means imposing transgender absurdity 1.00

00:21:31.400 on every other nation around the world, I'm out. Bring the troops home, baby. Get rid of the bases. 0.94

00:21:40.400 Forces and a lot of other Americans feel this way. This is why we ended up pulling out of Afghanistan.

00:21:45.020 This is why there were so many Americans who were skeptical of intervention around the world right

00:21:49.160 now. Because they say, okay, if we're going to raise the American flag all over the place,

00:21:54.040 whether it's some country in the Middle East or whether it's on the moon, that's one thing.

00:21:57.620 But what if we're not raising the American flag? If we're raising the rainbow flag, 0.81

00:22:00.520 if the rainbow flag is now supposed to represent me, I'm out. Because that doesn't represent me. 0.98

00:22:06.000 And whatever political body that flag represents, that is unrecognizable to me. You want to talk

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00:23:25.820 My favorite comment yesterday is from Joe Wojnowski, who says, Michael, does your contract

00:23:32.000 with DW have a built-in microphone replacement clause to hedge against your Italian speaking

00:23:36.580 habits? Hey, a beepity-boppity-boo! Beepity-boppity-hey! Forget about it. Forget about it. I know.

00:23:42.720 I know. That's really, that's too bad. I'm going to, don't tell Jeremy about that. These microphones

00:23:46.060 are very, very expensive. Best we can muster with foreign policy these days

00:23:53.520 is to ban TikTok. The best, while the Pentagon is out there, they want to treat, teach transgenderism 1.00

00:24:03.180 to little Afghani boys, or I don't know what they want to do. I think the best, the best option that 1.00

00:24:09.860 they have offered is to ban TikTok, for which the CEO of TikTok has now flown to the United States.

00:24:15.380 He is lobbying lawmakers, and he's directly appealing to the American people to get their

00:24:20.000 lawmakers to allow TikTok to remain in this country. Here's his argument.

00:24:25.800 Hi, everyone. It's Joe here. I'm the CEO of TikTok. I'm here in Washington, D.C. today,

00:24:31.340 and I have some news and updates to share with everyone here. Today, I'm super excited to announce

00:24:36.880 that more than 150 million Americans are on TikTok. That's just half of the U.S. coming to TikTok

00:24:43.400 to connect, to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun. This includes 5 million businesses

00:24:50.420 that use TikTok to reach the customers, and the majority of these are small and medium businesses.

00:24:55.900 Now, these numbers are amazing, and I'm so thankful to all of you and the 7,000 TikTok employees in the

00:25:02.880 U.S. who are helping us build this incredible community in America and around the world.

00:25:08.460 Now, this comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about

00:25:13.880 banning TikTok. Now, this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you. I'll be testifying

00:25:19.500 before Congress later this week to share all that we're doing to protect Americans using the app

00:25:25.220 and deliver on our mission to inspire creativity and to bring joy.

00:25:28.940 Yeah, don't threaten me with a good time. Take away TikTok from 150 million Americans.

00:25:33.620 I think a lot of people can get behind this because we think, wow, more than half of the 0.98

00:25:37.140 country is hooked on this stupid doom-scrolling app that doesn't add anything to our lives and only 0.99

00:25:41.420 destroys our brains and our memories and opens us up to all sorts of propaganda and has backdoors 1.00

00:25:49.240 to the Chinese Communist Party. Yeah, no thanks. A lot of people think that. When you add on to that,

00:25:54.760 the amount of time that TikTok users spend on the app, the average Twitter user, depends on which

00:26:03.080 survey you're looking at, the average Twitter user spends something like two to six minutes a day on

00:26:08.180 the app. Some of us spend a lot more time on the app, but that's the average Twitter user.

00:26:13.680 The average TikTok user spends something like 56 minutes a day on the app. It's not even close.

00:26:19.140 It's so many multiples higher, order of magnitude higher, and then some. So yeah, this represents a

00:26:26.640 threat to the American mind. But then my question is, okay, we're going to ban TikTok.

00:26:35.500 What about Facebook, Twitter, and Google? I'm not saying we ban all those things,

00:26:40.500 but I am wondering, hold on, why are we so worried about TikTok? Well, we're worried about TikTok

00:26:46.840 because it's a Chinese company. Okay. Was it TikTok that deplatformed the duly elected sitting

00:26:54.980 president of the United States? Was it TikTok that interfered in the 2020 presidential election

00:27:03.680 and suppressed a news story that was damaging to Joe Biden and suppressed it at every single level,

00:27:09.540 including private messages? Was it TikTok that did that? I don't think it was TikTok. As I recall,

00:27:15.340 it was Twitter and Facebook and Google. TikTok's got a bunch of problems. If the lawmakers want to ban

00:27:23.560 it, fine, whatever. But actually, the people who benefit from TikTok being banned are Facebook and

00:27:31.400 Twitter and Google. The very companies that have taken so much of our political power and so many of

00:27:41.140 our rights away, that have acted in a way to dominate the public square, which is the political

00:27:46.120 order in a republic, in which brazenly deplatformed conservatives and censored conservative news stories

00:27:54.340 and censored the duly elected sitting conservative president of the United States. I've heard enough

00:27:59.820 about TikTok. Do whatever you want with TikTok. What about those other guys?

00:28:05.400 They're my main concern. And in as much as banning TikTok helps Facebook and Google and Twitter,

00:28:14.580 Twitter now is owned by Elon, so I give it more slack. But in as much as banning TikTok just helps

00:28:21.340 American big tech companies, which pose one of the biggest threats to conservative political power and

00:28:28.400 to our whole political order in the United States, then I'm not for it. In as much as it helps those

00:28:35.060 big tech companies here in Silicon Valley, I would prefer that TikTok remain available just to give

00:28:40.580 those guys a little bit of competition. Because the next time that they move to censor Trump or whoever

00:28:45.520 the next Republican nominee is, maybe that Republican nominee will be able to find a home on TikTok.

00:28:50.560 They seem to be playing much more fairly with American conservatives than the allegedly American

00:28:55.880 businesses over in Silicon Valley are. Now, social media, I think, is fueling a lot of the insanity

00:29:04.480 around our culture. This is one of the big drivers, I'm convinced, of the identity insanity. You know,

00:29:10.140 I talked to a detransitioner, Helena Kirshner, some time ago, and she said one of the big factors that

00:29:16.800 got her down the transgender rabbit hole was social media. She would sequester herself in her room for 1.00

00:29:22.840 hours and hours and days on end. And she would be on Tumblr, I think, was the social media platform

00:29:29.960 that really got her into it. But all these different social media sites, she'd be divorced from the real

00:29:33.860 world. She'd be living in virtual reality, online where the body doesn't really matter. And they 1.00

00:29:39.820 would fuel her different anxieties. And they convinced her that she was really a man. And then she came to

00:29:44.700 regret this delusion. And then she has attempted to detransition mostly successfully so far.

00:29:49.860 Social media is fueling a lot of that insanity. And we're seeing it spill out beyond the digital

00:29:56.200 world. We're seeing it now in fast food restaurants.

00:29:58.980 It's like every single day, you guys. And this is what I complain about all the time. Look, what's his name?

00:30:04.980 What's your name? Alex? Yeah, your name's Alex. And I'm going to be talking to your manager. This guy

00:30:09.100 called me, sir. This happens every f***ing day. Everywhere I go, I get called sir. I'm so f***ing hard. 0.94

00:30:14.820 Why would you call a big a**? Why would you call? No, stop trying to gaslight trans people and tell us 1.00

00:30:22.640 that we're crazy. Why would you call me sir? You need a f***? I'm not being a beautiful woman. 0.98

00:30:26.260 I didn't say that. And stop being a f***ing scumbag and you're a liar. I heard you. Stop f***ing gaslighting 1.00

00:30:31.320 trans people. Okay. Wait, what? Did you call me sir again? What was that? You said good night, sir? 1.00

00:30:40.200 Alex, I'm going to be talking to the corporate guy. How many times have we seen this video?

00:30:43.060 F*** you. Okay? That's bullshit. You know where there's the one that hulking dude goes into a bodega 1.00

00:30:47.200 in New York and says, it's ma'am. Remember, it's ma'am. What the f*** is that? No, you don't f***ing do this to

00:30:53.940 trans people. This is discrimination. No, this is discrimination. I'm f***ing done with it. 0.99

00:30:58.920 Who behaves like this? Forget the gender identity problems for a second. Who behaves like this ever? 0.96

00:31:06.380 I go out in public. Occasionally, someone will slight me on occasion. Most people love me. But

00:31:12.920 on occasion, someone will say a nasty comment or insult me or be rude, sometimes even at a fast food

00:31:20.080 joint. And you know what I do? I do the same thing that you do that every normal person does.

00:31:25.240 Say, okay, yeah, whatever, buddy. Okay, fine, whatever. You take your hamburger and you leave.

00:31:30.780 The kind of people who behave this way are, I'm probably not allowed to say it on YouTube,

00:31:36.600 so bleep me if you have to, whatever. Crazy people. Crazy people behave this way. And when people are 0.99

00:31:43.560 acting crazy, a lot of people go crazy at some point in their life. What we do is we try to help them.

00:31:48.800 And we pull them back from the brink of delusion. And we say, no, hey, calm down. Deep breaths.

00:31:57.060 Here's what you're perceiving. Here's reality. Forget the first one. Embrace the second one. You will live

00:32:03.920 a better life. It's not just these random weirdos who throw hissy fits at fast food restaurants.

00:32:13.040 This is even prominent people who are behaving in a way that is hysterical in the face of reality.

00:32:19.460 There's an actor, Billy Porter. I'm not sure that I've ever seen him in anything, but I do see him

00:32:23.720 pop up on talk shows and in commercials and things like that. Billy Porter was just on The View,

00:32:30.440 whining and screaming and carrying on about Ron DeSantis.

00:32:33.640 Everything is about power and you could always trace it back to the money. You say that all the

00:32:38.520 time. Yeah. You know, it's follow the money, follow the power, power at any cost. It's very

00:32:45.300 hypocritical. You know, the the leading cause of death in children are guns. Yeah. Yeah. 0.98

00:32:52.900 They're guns. Yeah. I know it's the morning and I'm not supposed to be screaming, but they're guns.

00:32:58.900 Yeah. Not drag queens. Not drag queens. No. Leave us alone. Yes. You know, and it's just,

00:33:06.880 it's a distraction. It's a distraction on purpose. He goes on and he just says a lot of things that

00:33:14.980 sound like they're an argument, but they're not, which libs do a lot. They're these kind of

00:33:21.660 non-sectaries and it's hypocrisy and there are distractions and you want to talk about something.

00:33:26.920 Let's talk about, let's talk about corporate taxes. Okay. Let's talk about the second amendment.

00:33:31.620 All right. Let's talk about the 12th amendment. Okay. And you just think, well, what are we,

00:33:35.720 what are you saying about any of those things? Nothing really. Guns. Guns. I can't even do it.

00:33:42.360 I can't even do the Billy Porter impression. What is he talking about with guns? He's saying

00:33:46.180 the big threat to children is guns, not drag queens. No one's saying that drag queens are murdering 0.99

00:33:51.640 children. We're saying that drag queens are scandalizing children and drag queen story hour 1.00

00:33:56.440 is bringing often sexual criminals, child molesters into places like libraries and schools to jiggle 0.96

00:34:03.120 around in sexualized costumes for children. And that's obviously depraved and wrong. And in some 0.99

00:34:09.580 cases already is illegal. And in other cases should be illegal and we should stop it.

00:34:14.380 Well, what about the guns? What are you saying about that? That's a completely separate issue.

00:34:17.900 And it's true that guns are the leading cause of death among children. It's very close. It's just

00:34:24.560 slightly ahead of automobile accidents. So are you suggesting that we ban automobiles too?

00:34:30.540 What's your, is your argument that we ban guns and we take away the second amendment,

00:34:33.840 we rewrite the constitution and we deny people's right to defend themselves? Is that, is that what

00:34:38.060 you're saying? What are you saying? You're not saying any of that. You're not making any kind of

00:34:40.780 argument at all. You're trying to distract and you're distracting by yelling and screaming and wailing

00:34:46.620 and carrying on. And as a rule of thumb, if your ideology causes you to wail and scream first thing

00:34:54.360 in the morning, as Billy Porter acknowledges, there is probably something wrong with your ideology.

00:35:02.120 I notice this every time I go visit different schools. I'm going to be going to Purdue this week.

00:35:08.400 More on that in a second. But I was just at the University of Buffalo and the protesters come out

00:35:15.240 and they wail and they scream and they carry on. Occasionally, I'm able to speak to them. We

00:35:20.740 actually have a pretty, pretty interesting interview with, with some of the protesters at

00:35:25.740 Buffalo coming out soon. Stay tuned for that. But when you speak to them one-on-one and you just try

00:35:31.180 to get them to be reasonable and you say, hey, okay, here's, here's your premise. Here's the logical

00:35:37.040 conclusion of that. Here's why your premise is wrong. Here's my premise. Here's the conclusion of

00:35:41.880 that. Here's why that's correct and more appealing and more conducive to human flourishing.

00:35:46.240 They can calm down. But then sometimes they just, they go right back to it and they start wailing and

00:35:52.860 they start screaming. That's a good, if you find yourself falling down that rabbit hole,

00:35:57.940 recognize there's something wrong. The people who are correct, the people who are confident in their

00:36:03.460 views don't need to wail and scream. Sometimes cooler heads prevail. Before we go, we weren't able to

00:36:09.920 get to too much on this today, though there's not a ton of breaking news on it. We're waiting to see

00:36:14.500 if the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, indicts Donald Trump, arrests El Donaldo. And Trump seems to be

00:36:23.160 leaning into this. Might be the best thing that could happen to his campaign. And it shows you just

00:36:27.460 how obscenely corrupt the political system is in the United States, that the libs would now try to 0.99

00:36:32.680 arrest the leader of the political opposition, the chief rival to the current president.

00:36:36.420 Van Jones, who is a Democrat, he's a lib, he's on CNN. He is imploring his fellow Democrats. He's

00:36:43.380 imploring the DA. He's saying, hey, let's let cooler heads prevail and not cross the Rubicon here.

00:36:48.960 My view about this is, I think that the heat is on this DA. I think he's going to make a very sober

00:36:55.720 decision. And I would not be surprised if he doesn't step back from the brain.

00:36:59.140 So is this Van Jones's prediction or is this Van Jones's advocacy? Saying, yo, Bragg,

00:37:08.780 calm down here, man. This is going to be an escalation of the political war in this country

00:37:16.760 that we have never seen anything like this. A former president and current top presidential

00:37:22.160 candidate being arrested for what? Because of totally trumped up charges. Now, the libs are

00:37:29.860 very angry with Van Jones, but he's obviously right. Hard to go back from that because if they

00:37:34.740 do arrest Trump, one, it might help Trump's campaign. But two, the Republicans who are in

00:37:40.660 these positions of authority, DAs, attorneys general, and governors to bring political pressure

00:37:45.600 should arrest five of their guys. Not innocent people, but criminal libs. There's no shortage

00:37:52.040 of criminal libs out there who are not being held to account by the law. If they arrest our guy,

00:37:57.320 we need to arrest five of their guys. Okay? And we'll see who's laughing by the end of that exercise.

00:38:06.060 Okay? If the conservatives can muster the spine, I think they might be able to. Conservatives have

00:38:10.360 mustered a lot more of a spine in recent years. Then we can't just roll over and allow the libs

00:38:15.520 to arrest the political opposition and turn us into a complete banana republic. So then we have

00:38:21.260 to arrest their guys. And it escalates and it escalates and it escalates. And is that where

00:38:24.860 the libs want to take the political order? Maybe they're willing to take the bet. Maybe they're 0.99

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00:39:39.460 I'm going to Purdue. I guess I'm going to Purdue tomorrow. I better finish writing my speech.

00:39:43.540 I have not finished writing my speech yet, and already multiple protests are scheduled to try

00:39:51.600 to stop my visit. According to the Purdue exponent, two different protests have been planned against me.

00:39:58.420 One will take place at the same ballroom that I will be speaking in. My critics are so confused

00:40:06.220 that they can't even agree on how to protest me. And the posters, the ones that I've seen at least,

00:40:15.640 say that I'm a fascist. They put all sorts of swastikas on me. They say no fascists allowed on campus.

00:40:22.380 You know, a week ago, I learned that I was a genocidal maniac. I had never considered myself

00:40:29.660 much of a genocide man, but that's what I learned by reading the newspapers. Now I learn I'm a fascist.

00:40:36.520 Again, had not really considered myself a fascist, but maybe I'll have to go back to some of those

00:40:40.960 fascist writings. I'm pretty sure I'm not a fascist, but that's what they say. They just escalate it up

00:40:48.500 and up and up and up. It does go along with my new nickname, Benito Michelini. But they'll do

00:40:54.120 anything. They'll do anything to prevent me from speaking. And why? Why is that? It's because two

00:41:00.920 weeks ago, I said that men can't really be women and we should stop pretending that they can. And we 1.00

00:41:06.700 should stop indulging this preposterous ideology in public life at every level. And they lost it.

00:41:13.740 And they were so convinced they could cancel me. And then when the entire conservative media from

00:41:20.540 the most squishy to the most from, yeah, basically the most squishy, I'm not going to name names, but

00:41:25.880 very, very squishy media figures on the right, all the way to the most right wing, they essentially all

00:41:32.080 defended my speech. Because it's obviously true. Men can't really be women and we can't tolerate this

00:41:36.860 stuff. We really should not tolerate it. Then top Republican politicians, multiple US senators,

00:41:42.700 they came out and the Libs were so angry that they weren't able to squash this idea.

00:41:48.480 They were so angry that for the first time in a very long time, conservatives might not just be

00:41:53.060 playing defense and trying to slow down the Libs, might be trying to reclaim ground that the Libs

00:41:58.200 thought they had already conquered. They were so angry that now they're calling me Hitler. They're

00:42:01.720 going to try to shut this down. They threaten violence. They do all this kinds of stuff. Okay,

00:42:05.400 well, doesn't worry us. We come in prepared. You're not going to intimidate us. We'll be there

00:42:10.900 on Thursday. So if you're in the Purdue area, come on by, say hey, and you can listen to the

00:42:16.520 speech. There's a story I wanted to get to a few days ago, and I'm glad we have at least a minute

00:42:20.760 to get to it right now. This was a story in Vice. It's a kind of a science story. And I don't know

00:42:27.280 anything about the science, but it did get me thinking. The headline is, a growing number of

00:42:30.800 scientists are convinced. The future influences the past. It's not just that causation goes from

00:42:39.640 the past to the future, but that the future can influence the past in a way. I talked to a guy who

00:42:46.580 has one of the highest IQs ever recorded, and he suggested something similar. I couldn't quite

00:42:54.300 understand it. Someone here says, our instincts of time and causation are our deepest, strongest

00:42:59.440 instincts that physicists and philosophers and humans are loathe to give up. But that's what

00:43:05.980 these scientists who are quoted in Vice are saying. Got me thinking. There's a Catholic saint,

00:43:10.640 a recent saint, very, very famous priest of the 20th century named Padre Pio. Padre Pio had all

00:43:17.220 these sorts of miracles associated with him. He received the stigmata, the wounds of Christ,

00:43:21.740 miraculously. Many, many miracles are attributed to Padre Pio. And there's a story about him,

00:43:30.480 apocryphal or not, which is that one time he was praying, and someone asked Padre Pio,

00:43:35.680 who are you praying for? And he said, I'm praying that my great-great-grandfather will have a good

00:43:39.520 death. And the person said, well, your great-great-grandfather obviously died a very long

00:43:44.600 time ago. Why are you praying for that? And Padre Pio said, because God is outside of time and space.

00:43:48.980 And so my prayers, for me, inside of time and space, can be efficacious. Because for God,

00:43:55.640 time is not a problem. Whether it's apocryphal or not, it tells you something true, I think,

00:44:03.520 and important. Life has integrity to it. The creation has integrity to it. This is something

00:44:10.780 I've noticed about all the greatest works of art, is that the great works of art that can really make

00:44:15.660 you, reduce you to tears, that can really inspire you, that really resonate with the soul, are works

00:44:21.400 of art in which everything fits together. And this is one of the great debates of our time,

00:44:26.660 is does the world make sense, or does the world not make sense? Is the world, is there providence?

00:44:34.200 Do things matter? Do things have purpose? Do things have meaning? Are we here for a reason? Are we here

00:44:37.980 at the very right moment? Did God know every hair on our head before we were born? Or is it all just a

00:44:42.880 kind of a cosmic accident caused by a random blip in the natural laws of the universe created by who

00:44:49.560 knows, whatever, they're just there. And one day we're going to turn off and take a dirt nap and

00:44:53.740 turn to warm food. Which is it? Which is it? I tend to believe it's the former. I don't think we could

00:44:58.900 even wonder at the question if the world were not intelligible, if there were not an underlying

00:45:05.320 intelligibility to things. And so it is the former. And if it's the former, this means that one wants to

00:45:11.860 have integrity throughout one's whole life, throughout all of creation. Because when God

00:45:15.900 looks at our lives, he's not looking at us moment by moment by moment. He's looking at the whole thing

00:45:21.680 from outside of time and space. That's how you resolve free will and providence and grace.

00:45:28.480 The fact that things happen according to a divine order. It's the first time I've ever read any religious

00:45:34.920 insight in Vice magazine. But it seems to be catching on. It's catching on with Tulsi Gabbard.

00:45:41.260 It's catching on with New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Remember he said that things really went

00:45:46.400 downhill when we took prayer out of schools? It's catching on even in Vice. True religion is 0.98

00:45:51.940 resonating. We've had enough false religion. True religion is resonating. Conservatives should get

00:45:56.740 more comfortable thinking about it and acting on it and speaking in those terms. The rest of the show

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 22, 2023

Ep. 1208 - DeSantis Hints At A YUGE Announcement

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