The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1217 - Trump Arrested By Woke Basket Of Deplorables

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00:00:37.640 It's arraignment day, but instead of focusing on the defendant, I would like to turn our attention

00:00:45.120 for a moment to the persecutor, New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is arresting

00:00:51.420 the national opposition leader on a trumped-up, maybe misdemeanor charge from seven years ago,

00:00:57.460 and claiming that it's a felony. It's not a felony. Whatever Trump did, it's very likely not

00:01:04.680 even a misdemeanor, as the substance of Trump's alleged crime is making a donation to his own

00:01:11.500 campaign, which candidates are allowed to do without limit. But putting that aside for a second, let's

00:01:18.740 say that it were a misdemeanor. Let's even pretend that it were a felony, which Bragg needs to do to

00:01:28.020 make any even remotely plausible case to arrest him. If it's only a misdemeanor, he's got no case

00:01:33.220 against Trump. He's got to trump it up to a felony. So let's say somehow this were a felony.

00:01:37.720 Alvin Bragg's defining feature as DA in New York is that he lets felons off the hook. According to

00:01:48.940 data published last year, Bragg downgraded most felony cases that came across his desk. In 52%

00:01:56.600 of felony cases, Bragg downgraded them to misdemeanors to ensure that criminals were punished as little as

00:02:03.480 possible. Liberal DAs went on a downgrading spree around Manhattan in recent years. But even still,

00:02:12.600 Alvin Bragg's record of letting felons off the hook went far beyond Manhattan's 39% downgrade rate in

00:02:19.940 2019. Even Cyrus Vance, Bragg's far left immediate predecessor as DA, never downgraded more than 40%

00:02:28.680 of felony cases, much less 52. Bragg downgraded most of them. There's only one felony that Alvin

00:02:37.280 Bragg seems hell-bent on prosecuting in New York. And it just so happens to be the one that Donald

00:02:43.800 Trump didn't commit. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:47.760 Welcome back to the show. The New York DA, the liberals broadly, are sending a clear message

00:03:00.240 to Republicans. This arrest is sending a clear message to the political opposition. Our friend

00:03:06.380 Kid Rock is sending a clear message to Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch. We'll get to that in just one

00:03:11.000 second. First, though, things are happening in real time on Arraignment Day here. We all know the broad

00:03:17.420 scopes of what's going on. President Trump, after months and months of speculation, is being indicted.

00:03:24.220 They're going after him in New York. They're probably going to go after him later in Georgia.

00:03:28.240 He can still run for president. He could run for president if he were wearing an orange jumpsuit.

00:03:33.280 But he's not going to be wearing an orange jumpsuit yet. Yet. The reason the word yet is

00:03:39.020 important here is because the judge in the case in New York could impose a gag order on Donald Trump,

00:03:45.040 which elevates what I think is already a constitutional crisis into a much more extreme

00:03:49.960 constitutional crisis. The United States is now very clearly in banana republic territory

00:03:55.160 just by arresting the former president and the political opposition leader. But what the judge

00:04:00.600 could say is, you're being arrested. We're going to try you for this ridiculous fake charge. 0.98

00:04:07.080 And you can't talk about it. That's what the gag order would do. But Donald Trump is campaigning 0.95

00:04:13.220 for president. How is he not supposed to talk about this central issue where they're going to try to put

00:04:18.080 him in prison? But if he does talk about it, what would the consequences be? Consequences could be

00:04:22.720 a $1,000 fine. I think Trump can afford it. Or 30 days in prison.

00:04:28.820 Now, if I were Trump, and I can see political reality very clearly, and I can see that the way

00:04:37.040 our government works is not like they told us in school with the bill up on Capitol Hill

00:04:40.600 and everything we learned in civics class. But actually, our constitution operates in a much

00:04:45.320 more corrupt way. And that's the lowercase c constitution. Not the uppercase c one that you

00:04:50.520 see on the parchment, but the lowercase c one in which the liberals wield political power arbitrarily.

00:04:56.300 They've got a two-tiered system of justice. Republicans are treated as criminals for telling

00:05:02.140 jokes. And Democrat criminals are treated as merely joking. Oh, don't worry. Oh, it's just, 0.72

00:05:10.000 oh, they burned the country down. Oh, tee hee hee. No big deal. We won't even give them a slap on the

00:05:13.460 wrist. Oh, a Republican posted a meme on Twitter. Yeah, he's going to face 10 years in the clink.

00:05:17.640 So Trump is seeing all of that very, very clearly. If I were him,

00:05:21.200 I would immediately violate the gag order. Trump is not known for keeping his mouth shut.

00:05:27.360 So he'll probably do that anyway. And then I would hope that they throw me in prison.

00:05:31.360 Make clear just how corrupt our government has become.

00:05:38.300 Make that very clear. Have them throw this guy into a cell

00:05:41.340 to show you just how corrupt all of this is, because Trump is not going to go quietly

00:05:47.440 into that night. So all of this has benefited Trump's political prospects, at least thus far.

00:05:55.240 According to a McLaughlin poll, Trump is now beating Ron DeSantis by 30 points.

00:06:02.020 Trump has taken a 30-point lead. He's got majority support now, 51%,

00:06:07.180 which is important for Trump, because a lot of people thought Trump might max out at 45 to 49%.

00:06:13.140 He's now at majority support among Republicans. DeSantis is down significantly. DeSantis has

00:06:19.200 experienced a double-digit drop down to 21%. That means the race has swung a net 18 points in

00:06:26.560 Donald Trump's direction since January. Why is this? What happened since January? Well,

00:06:31.300 after Trump's lackluster campaign announcement, he's gotten a lot of his mojo back. He went to East

00:06:36.060 Palestine, Ohio, and bought everybody McDonald's and showed that he cared. He looked like the one

00:06:39.980 politician in the country pretty much who cared about these people who had a massive poison spill

00:06:45.660 in their town, and the government tried to cover it up, deny it, look away, nothing to see here.

00:06:49.840 Trump shows up, brings them supplies, and points to the people who elected him and the people that

00:06:55.300 he's represented and said, at least I care about you guys. That was very, very important.

00:07:01.320 Then Trump goes out and he offers different policies than the other candidates.

00:07:07.140 Again, this is no knock on DeSantis or any of the other Republican candidates.

00:07:13.040 This is not even a recommendation of those policies, but we should be pretty clear about this.

00:07:18.920 Donald Trump was not merely elected in 2016 because he's got a fun personality. Maybe that

00:07:24.180 played a little bit into it, but I'm actually more taken with Ann Coulter's thesis on 2016,

00:07:28.680 which is that President Trump was not elected for his personality despite his policies,

00:07:33.360 but it was the opposite. He was elected for his policies, often in spite of his personality.

00:07:37.900 You see this on trade. Every other Republican candidate pretty much across the board for the

00:07:42.260 last 30 years has been a free trader. Donald Trump is saying, I support protectionism.

00:07:48.240 I support mercantilism for the 21st century. You might say that's crazy. That's bad for the economy.

00:07:52.920 We're going to lose money. But I think everyone has to admit that is the alternative to globalism.

00:07:59.040 Free trade means increasing globalization. Protectionism means decreasing globalization.

00:08:06.080 So Trump, maybe you say it's a dumb policy. I don't think it's a dumb policy, but maybe you say 0.93

00:08:10.500 it's a dumb policy. At the very least, you have to admit this guy's offering an alternative on 0.88

00:08:15.000 foreign policy. Trump offers an alternative. For most of the other candidates, we don't know exactly

00:08:20.600 what their foreign policy looks like. For most of the Republicans over the last 30 years,

00:08:24.860 their foreign policy is essentially do what the State Department wants to do. That's why foreign

00:08:29.240 policy hasn't changed very much from Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama. It's always just kind

00:08:35.600 of the same foreign intervention in roughly the same places. Trump says, no, we're going to wind

00:08:39.560 down the war in Ukraine. We're going to pull troops home. We're going to pull back on some of

00:08:44.000 NATO's intervention around the world. We just found out today that Finland has joined NATO. So NATO

00:08:49.660 continues to expand, which Russia says is the provocation for the war in Ukraine, which people 0.59

00:08:56.320 like Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, George Kennan, and other Daniel Patrick Moynihan, very serious foreign

00:09:00.520 policy thinkers, have said for 30 years will increase the risk of global conflict if NATO continues to

00:09:05.580 expand. That's a topic for another day. All of which is to say, Trump is offering a policy

00:09:10.020 alternative. Will that continue to serve him? But we'll see. We'll see if he can continue

00:09:18.500 to campaign effectively from prison. Now, speaking of Trump's rival, Ron DeSantis is also doing some

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00:10:57.320 Ron DeSantis down in Florida. He's been great on the trans stuff. He's been great attacking 1.00

00:11:02.280 corporate America, woke corporations. He's been great on education. Now, Ron DeSantis has signed

00:11:09.860 a constitutional carry law in Florida. This means that you don't need to get some special permit to

00:11:17.080 carry a gun, but it's your constitutional right. You get to do it without the permit. And this is

00:11:21.140 really important because it means that now the majority of states in this country recognize the

00:11:26.700 constitutional right to carry a gun. And especially as we see shootings increase. We had a shooting in

00:11:33.100 my town just last week. As the political order continues to fray, you need to be able to protect

00:11:40.960 yourself. This derives from the natural law, the right of self-preservation. This has been enshrined in

00:11:47.240 our Second Amendment. This has been a tradition in the United States going back to the very earliest days.

00:11:51.660 DeSantis says, we are not going to be bullied by the libs who are constantly demagoguing on the issue

00:11:59.240 of guns in a way that is totally divorced from the reality of gun crimes. There was a shooting

00:12:04.500 some weeks ago. Immediately afterward, Nancy Pelosi said, we need an assault weapons ban. 1.00

00:12:11.300 But the shooting didn't involve an assault weapon, whatever that is, meaning a black rifle. It didn't

00:12:16.980 involve a rifle at all. It involved handguns. An assault weapons ban would have done nothing to stop

00:12:21.660 most of these shootings. So the libs are always demagoguing on this. And they're getting more

00:12:27.980 and more aggressive. The White House was just asked, can you rule out, when you're talking about

00:12:33.380 common sense gun reform, will you assuage everybody's fears right now and say, Corrine

00:12:39.760 Jean-Pierre, that the White House will not send agents door to door to confiscate people's weapons?

00:12:47.000 Here's the White House response. Does the president support not just banning the sale and manufacture

00:12:52.720 of semi-automatic weapons, but further than that, confiscation? Let me just be very clear. What

00:12:58.620 we're talking about, AR-15s, these assault weapons ban, they are weapons of war and they should not be

00:13:04.500 on the streets across the country, in our communities. They should not be in schools. They should not be in

00:13:10.120 grocery stores. They should not be in churches. That's what the president believes. And he has done

00:13:16.000 more than any other president the first two years on an executive order. And as you know, we all know

00:13:21.840 how government works. There's only so much that he can do. And so now it's time for Congress to do

00:13:27.440 the work. And he's happy to sign. Once that happens, he's happy to sign that legislation that says,

00:13:34.580 okay, we're going to remove assault weapons. We're going to have an assault weapons ban.

00:13:40.480 Sorry. Did you plan on answering the question ever or no? You're just going to dodge it.

00:13:45.640 She's just going to dodge it, obviously. It should be a layup. Simple question. 0.87

00:13:50.240 Can you assuage Americans' fears? You're going to try to regulate guns. You're going to try to ban

00:13:53.040 the sale of some of the most popular guns in the country. Okay. At least you're not going to go

00:13:57.520 door to door and take people's guns, right? Well, we've said these are weapons of war.

00:14:05.800 Beep, boop. Beep, boop. Weapons. Assault weapons. Bad. We need to common sense. Beep, beep, boop. Beep,

00:14:11.640 beep, boop. All weapons are weapons of war. All things that can kill people are weapons that could be used

00:14:19.660 in war. All guns are assault weapons. They are intended to assault people. They're intended to

00:14:26.540 threaten people. They're intended to harm people. They're intended to protect you against bad people

00:14:32.400 who are trying to harm you. All of those platitudes means nothing. What the answer in

00:14:39.340 total means is, yeah, we're considering confiscating your guns. Now, they're talking

00:14:43.800 about semi-automatic guns. What is a semi-automatic gun? Just a gun that automatically reloads.

00:14:50.300 The libs try to pretend that a semi-automatic weapon is a gun where you hold the trigger down and just

00:14:55.240 a spray of bullets comes out like a fully automatic weapon. But of course, that's not what it is.

00:15:01.180 20%, an estimated 20% of all guns in the United States, including the antique guns, including guns

00:15:07.440 that have been passed down for generations, 20% of all guns are semi-automatic, including shotguns.

00:15:13.040 Many people don't want semi-automatic shotguns. They like to reload themselves. 20% of all guns,

00:15:18.420 one in five guns, are semi-automatic. When it comes to handguns, 85% of handguns in the United

00:15:23.340 States are semi-automatic. If the White House bans the sale of semi-automatic weapons,

00:15:28.400 if the White House goes further to confiscate semi-automatic weapons, they will be taking a

00:15:32.880 huge chunk of guns out of the hands of Americans. And that will not protect anybody. That will harm

00:15:42.560 people and that will open them up to the predations of criminals. Speaking of harmful things,

00:15:46.220 very, very harmful things. Do you know that in this country, people are still allowed to read

00:15:52.900 politically incorrect books? Some classic books, some of the best-selling books of all time,

00:15:58.040 but if they're politically incorrect and they're not totally on board with the 2023 radical trans

00:16:05.280 agenda, if they're not on board with whatever the fad du jour of the Democratic Party is, people are

00:16:11.300 still allowed to read them. Very, very scary. And everyone is bemoaning this sad situation,

00:16:18.300 including the publisher of some of these books. The publisher of Gone with the Wind, this is Pan 0.99

00:16:24.060 Macmillan, has described Gone with the Wind as harmful. Gone with the Wind, one of the most popular

00:16:30.500 books ever, one of the greatest films ever made. Pan Macmillan calls the book problematic

00:16:37.120 because it contains racist elements, very racist book. And those elements are probably hurtful or

00:16:46.740 indeed harmful. The novel includes the representation of unacceptable practices, racist and stereotypical

00:16:56.080 depictions and troubling themes, characterization, language, and imagery.

00:17:00.820 We murder 800,000 babies a year in the United States. And we have done that for 50 years now.

00:17:15.460 I am sick and tired of hearing that the 18th and 19th centuries in America were the pinnacle of all evil

00:17:26.400 ever in the world. I'm tired of hearing that slavery was the greatest sin ever to occur.

00:17:34.800 Slavery is a bad thing. Slavery isn't even the worst sin to occur in the history of the United States.

00:17:43.120 Slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn't even as bad as what the liberals are doing right now.

00:17:50.660 The liberals right now, what are their defining policies?

00:17:53.040 The policies that they hold on to most dearly, the policies are slaughtering hundreds of thousands 0.98

00:17:59.520 of babies a year and castrating children and chopping off their genitals and pumping them 0.99

00:18:05.620 full of hormones that will make their bones brittle, that are going to give them terrible

00:18:11.520 health consequences throughout the rest of their lives and push them into an ideology that greatly

00:18:16.240 increases the risk of suicidality. That's what the liberals are doing right now. And they consider

00:18:20.060 those alleged rights sacred. So forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of them sitting up there on

00:18:27.760 their high horse saying that the fact that people can read a classic of recent literature gone with

00:18:34.680 the wind is problematic and harmful. Good grief. The worst era in the whole history of the world was the

00:18:43.260 19th century say that the people who currently support the largest genocide in history, which is still

00:18:52.600 ongoing. Give me a freaking break. About we focus a little less on censoring century-old books and 0.91

00:19:03.420 focus a little bit more on rectifying the actual evils going on in the world right now.

00:19:07.940 We can't do that. We're so confused. We're so confused. The New Zealand prime minister seems to

00:19:14.280 be more confused than any of us. New Zealand prime minister was asked a question that seems to have

00:19:20.160 come from the Daily Wire and has resonated all over the world, thanks to our friend Matt Walsh.

00:19:25.900 The New Zealand prime minister was asked to define what a woman is. 0.72

00:19:29.500 I just wanted to ask you, given comments by Keir Starmer in Britain,

00:19:33.100 how do you and how does this government define a woman? 1.00

00:19:41.840 To be honest, Sean, that question's come slightly out of left field for me.

00:19:47.440 The, well, biology, sex, gender, people define themselves, people define their own genders.

00:20:00.460 No. What is that? He said that he believes 99.9% of women do not have penises. And I know it's a 0.97

00:20:08.120 strange thing for him to say, but given recent events in New Zealand, I'd ask again, how do you define

00:20:15.240 what a woman is? Well, I think as I've just indicated, I wasn't expecting that question,

00:20:21.280 so it's not something that I've, you know, formulated, pre-formulated an answer on. But

00:20:25.820 in terms of gender identity, I think people define their gender identity for themselves.

00:20:31.340 Yes, well, a woman is a person who says that she's a woman. Okay, what is that?

00:20:38.700 Well, you really got me there. It's like the riddle of the Sphinx. They don't, whoa.

00:20:44.700 My New Zealand accent isn't great. It's not really great. And his answer wasn't really great.

00:20:49.340 But in his defense, if you accept the illogic of transgenderism, if you hold to the gobbledygook 0.99

00:20:58.800 nonsense of transgenderism, you can't answer the question. I can answer the question. 1.00

00:21:06.200 A woman is the kind of person who isn't a man. A woman is the kind of person who is a member of the 0.83

00:21:14.580 real and natural category of woman. It is, you know, has the physical attributes, the natural 1.00

00:21:22.440 physical attributes of woman, and who is not merely reducible to her body, but who is described

00:21:31.520 by her body, by her natural physical attributes, because sexual difference comes from the body, 0.82

00:21:38.100 though the whole person is a composite of body and soul. We can answer that.

00:21:41.140 A woman is an adult human female. A woman is the kind of person who can give birth, is the kind of 0.99

00:21:49.700 person who can menstruate, is the kind of, we all know what a woman is. It takes an elite to be 1.00

00:21:57.960 confused about what a woman is. But he can't, it's not just that he didn't think up a good answer.

00:22:02.600 When he says, well, you know, I did not give a lot of thought to that question. Right, you could think

00:22:08.460 about it until the end of the world. You could think about it till kingdom come. You're not going

00:22:14.360 to come up with an answer if you accept transgenderism, because transgenderism precludes 1.00

00:22:18.580 an answer to that simple question. And as a general rule, if your ideology precludes you from

00:22:24.700 answering basic questions, the answers to which we all know, then the ideology is almost certainly

00:22:30.240 wrong. We can say that. I got to give this guy a call and explain to him what a woman is. And when I 1.00

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00:23:53.960 that's a great segue into a clip that I have to bring up. I just saw it this morning from our

00:24:00.880 friend, Tennessee local, Kid Rock, who in his typically articulate and pithy fashion has responded

00:24:10.680 to Bud Light's recent sponsorship of the transvestite Dylan Mulvaney. Here is Kid's response.

00:24:23.960 Grandpa is feeling a little frisky today. Let me say something to all you and be as clear

00:24:32.460 and concise as possible.

00:24:46.880 Bud Light and Anhyzer Bush. Have a terrific day.

00:24:53.960 In so few words, he summed up what so many of us were thinking. By the way,

00:24:59.220 we always talk about what's an assault weapon, what's a fully automatic weapon. I think that

00:25:03.920 one is an assault weapon. I'm pretty sure that one is. Whatever assault weapon means,

00:25:09.360 it probably means that fully automatic weapon that Kid Rock has, which are very hard to get

00:25:13.500 and which we highly regulate in America. And for those of you who were only listening to that

00:25:17.620 and didn't see it, the object of his fire was two 12 packs of Bud Light. And it's an important

00:25:26.580 statement too, because Kid Rock is not only a rock star, but he owns the biggest honky tonk in Nashville.

00:25:35.840 The biggest, most impressive honky tonk in Nashville, which is Music City, is Kid Rock's 0.51

00:25:41.020 big ass honky tonk and rock and roll steakhouse. Great name for an establishment. So I assume they're

00:25:45.380 going to get rid of Bud Light at the honky tonk. And I think we should all get rid of Bud Light in

00:25:49.520 our homes. I almost never drink Bud Light. Though, if I'm at the kind of place where I'm going to drink

00:25:54.460 regular light beer like that, I previously had ordered Bud Light because it tastes kind of like

00:26:02.080 nothing. Now I'm going to have to order something else. It's so offensive that Bud Light would partner

00:26:09.980 with this guy, Dylan Mulvaney. It's so offensive that they would partner with a guy who makes an

00:26:15.660 absolute mockery of women and of the difference between men and women. It's absolutely offensive

00:26:21.760 that Bud Light would announce this days after a transgender identifying person shot up a Christian 1.00

00:26:28.840 school in a targeted shooting. According to the chief of police, apparently motivated by

00:26:36.840 transgender ideology. We're not allowed to say that definitively because we haven't gotten any

00:26:40.960 more information. We haven't seen a manifesto. But the facts as they appear right now are pretty

00:26:45.180 clear. And what does Bud Light do? The same thing the White House does. The same thing that the

00:26:50.800 Department of Health and Human Services do. Same thing the media do. They say, you know, the real

00:26:54.360 victims here are the transgender identifying people. And if you don't support transgenderism,

00:26:58.840 you're a terrible, awful person. Transgenderism is the state religion and you will comply with it. 1.00

00:27:05.360 And Kid Rock says, nope. Nope. And we can all say nope as well. But they are pushing this on us,

00:27:12.900 everyone. They're pushing it on the kids, especially. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry

00:27:17.880 Potter and is an actor. Daniel Radcliffe just published some kind of series, some kind of podcast

00:27:24.920 series, because every single white millennial on planet Earth, I think by federal statute, now must have 0.84

00:27:30.980 a podcast. Daniel Radcliffe posted this long interview in which he is talking to transgender

00:27:38.000 identifying people in which he makes a strange claim about pedagogy, education, and the rational

00:27:44.900 faculties of children.

00:27:46.020 I learned from, you know, out of the cradle that I am, you know, that I was a boy. I should like

00:27:55.580 blue. I should like sports. I should be manly. I should like superheroes. Yeah. And I just, I never

00:28:02.500 associated myself with those things. And we are told that we're not old enough to know, to know this

00:28:09.600 yet. I mean, I'm only 11 years old. How do I know I'm a girl? And I need more time to think about

00:28:16.420 this. But there are also people who do have like a slightly condescending, but well-meaning attitude

00:28:22.440 of like, well, people are young. And like, how do we, you know, that is a huge decision. I'd love to

00:28:27.560 hear from all of you about like why we can trust kids to like tell us who they are. I don't understand

00:28:34.300 why I can't just decide that I'm a girl. If it's a big decision to decide I'm a girl, it's a big decision

00:28:38.980 to decide I'm a boy. Right. Put a pause there. It's just, it's the same. It's a big, big decision

00:28:43.000 to decide to get a tattoo. You're not allowed to do that. It's a big decision to decide to start

00:28:47.640 smoking cigarettes. You're not allowed to do that. You, you will be allowed to do that eventually

00:28:51.340 once you've reached an age of maturity and reason and consent when you're 18. And now we

00:28:56.240 keep raising that. You're not, you're not allowed in the United States to, to purchase a pack of

00:29:02.020 cigarettes until you're 21 years old, but you can decide to start the process that will culminate 0.98

00:29:07.400 in you chopping off your genitals at age eight. You can start the process, frankly, even earlier 0.92

00:29:13.740 in, in certain locales, you can start the process that will see you put on puberty blocking drugs

00:29:19.940 that will see you pumped full of cross sex hormones that will see your body mutilated, 1.00

00:29:24.080 that will see you sterilized, castrated. You can start that when you're in elementary school, 0.89

00:29:29.000 but you can't get a tattoo until you're 18. You can't buy a drink or smoke a cigarette until you're

00:29:36.680 21. Does that make a lot of sense? Well, no, because kids, kids don't know if they want to

00:29:41.300 have a tiny little Japanese character symbol in green on their wrist, like every white girl in 1.00

00:29:46.920 the United States. They can't decide that until they turn 18, but they can decide to lop their

00:29:51.700 breasts off when they turn eight, right? Does that make a lot of sense? It doesn't make sense to me.

00:29:55.500 Keep going.

00:29:56.160 Decide I'm a boy.

00:29:57.020 Right.

00:29:57.540 It's just, it's the same thing. There's no, there's no age. You don't have to be 18

00:30:01.620 to decide that, oh, I am who I am.

00:30:05.440 Okay, there it is. Both of my examples were sort of harsh on white people, but I think

00:30:10.500 they're especially a little harsh on white people here because it appears to me that it is white

00:30:16.340 liberals in particular who are so taken with these insane ideologies. It's people like Daniel Radcliffe.

00:30:23.980 It's people like Robin DiAngelo. It's people like Randy Weingarten. It's people like, it's all,

00:30:32.720 this pathology seems to be seeping from very liberal whites. I don't know why that is, 0.56

00:30:42.000 but it is going out everywhere to every racial group of people and to every geography.

00:30:48.120 It is, actually, you know, Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France was asked about wokeness

00:30:54.580 and he said, oh, that's an American thing. This is the leader of France. France is a very liberal

00:30:59.140 country. They said this wokeness stuff, this extreme of liberalism, this extreme of liberation

00:31:04.920 that attempts to liberate you even from your own body, even from your own self, that's an American

00:31:09.220 thing. We don't do that here. This extreme of liberation that says that you don't even need

00:31:15.200 to cultivate your higher rational will in order to make these sorts of decisions. You can do it

00:31:21.980 when you're 11. You can do it from the moment you crawl out of that crib. You can decide that you are

00:31:27.660 not really yourself and you can decide to kill your former self and become a totally new person. 0.70

00:31:34.440 But of course, that's not the case. The liberals trying to trans the kids highlights perfectly 0.97

00:31:40.900 something that I have been pointing out about liberty for a long time, which is that

00:31:46.580 liberty is a confounding thing because liberty and licentiousness are different things because

00:31:54.160 liberty is not merely about what you will to do because we have two wills. We have a lower will,

00:32:00.320 which is the appetite, and we have a higher will, which is the rational will.

00:32:03.760 And the process of education is about cultivating the rational will so you can suppress your

00:32:09.880 appetites. And kids, by definition, can't do that. That's why if you leave a kid in a room with a

00:32:17.260 cookie jar, the kid is going to eat all the cookies. An adult might eat all the cookies. Increasingly in

00:32:22.500 our undisciplined and decadent society, they will eat all the cookies. But the adults have a better

00:32:27.260 chance, having cultivated that rational will, having suppressed those appetites, having learned to

00:32:33.360 master a little bit, their concupiscence, they will be more likely to discipline themselves.

00:32:40.080 So the liberation that is offered by the liberals is not true liberty. It's not the liberty to chart

00:32:46.340 your own course and pursue the good and behave in a way that is rational and conducive to your human

00:32:51.960 flourishing. It's that false kind of liberty of eating all the cookies in the cookie jar or doing a

00:32:58.120 bunch of drugs or harming yourself. It's that false liberty that says that if it feels good, do it.

00:33:06.120 But that kind of liberty is nothing but slavery. That kind of liberty will lead to nothing but your

00:33:12.800 own destruction. It's the liberty of the heroin addict who's going to be the freest man in the world

00:33:16.400 until he overdoses or dies of exposure on the streets of San Francisco. It's called licentiousness.

00:33:23.280 That way lies destruction. This is what students are being taught, though. There's a teacher who just

00:33:31.620 went viral on TikTok who was boasting that he passes out chest binders to his students.

00:33:39.280 I teach in an explicitly trans-affirming high school. We have gender support plans. We have a gender-affirming

00:33:46.560 wardrobe at our school. We have binders on demand for our students and other shapewear can easily be

00:33:51.960 ordered. We have students that express themselves in all manner of different ways. And I couldn't be

00:33:58.080 prouder to work at a school that's so amazing. If you would like to have your school also be an

00:34:03.440 explicitly trans-affirming school, let me know. Maybe we can figure something out.

00:34:08.900 Have you ever seen a creepier guy in your whole life than the kind of guy who seeks out

00:34:18.960 an explicitly trans-affirming high school and passes out all sorts of weird sexual toys to children

00:34:31.560 and then goes on the internet and advertises it and say, hey, kids. Hey, kids. If you're out there

00:34:39.780 and you want to talk about weird sex stuff to some adults in school, just shoot me a DM.

00:34:44.880 I love it. I got the greatest job in the world. I bet you think you do. I bet you think you do,

00:34:51.300 man. But this is the sort of thing that we should not be tolerating. You're not allowed to teach the

00:34:58.200 Bible in schools. You're not allowed to pray to God in schools. It is increasingly politically

00:35:08.740 incorrect to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. But now we have trans-affirming schools

00:35:16.540 in which teachers pass out sex toys to children.

00:35:25.280 We're going to have some standards. The people who oppose the Bible in schools,

00:35:30.960 the ones who did so with good intentions, like the pavement to the road of hell,

00:35:36.120 some people had good intentions. They said, well, we don't want to force any religious beliefs on

00:35:40.520 anybody. So we're just going to get the Bible out of schools. Oh, we don't want to force religious 1.00

00:35:44.880 beliefs. We're going to get prayer out of schools. We don't want to force patriotic beliefs. We're

00:35:48.580 going to get the Pledge of Allegiance out of schools. They did so in the, according to the false

00:35:54.860 perception, false conception, that we would then have a neutral school. You can't have a neutral school.

00:36:03.180 You can't have a neutral society, but you certainly can't have a neutral school because schools teach

00:36:07.300 things. So when you take one idea out of a school, it creates a vacuum. Something else will fill that

00:36:14.820 vacuum. You take the American flag out of the classroom, the pride flag will fill that. You 1.00

00:36:20.060 take God out of the classroom, some idol will fill that. You take Christianity out of the classroom, 1.00

00:36:24.880 which says that man is a composite of body and soul, and the soul is a substantial form of the body.

00:36:28.820 Well, transgenderism is going to fill that vacuum, which says that man is a duality between body and 0.81

00:36:36.940 soul. And your soul and your body don't have any real relation to one another. They can be in

00:36:42.220 opposition. And if you feel any discomfort about your physical self, well, you should hate your

00:36:47.860 physical self. That's not really you. Chop it up. Sterilize it. That's what's always going to fill it.

00:36:53.920 So we have to have a clear vision of not just how we want children to develop critical thinking

00:37:01.900 skills, but we have to first answer what should they think. You can't learn how to think before

00:37:07.080 you learn what to think, at least about certain basic things. Now, before we move on, I just have

00:37:12.740 to raise a question, which is, did AOC call for the murder of Matt Walsh? I don't know. There was

00:37:25.480 a related issue a couple of weeks ago. A sitting member of Congress, Jamal Bowman, also from New

00:37:30.160 York, called me a Nazi and said that I'm a Nazi hell-bent on only keeping white men alive and in 0.57

00:37:37.360 power. So I don't know where he got this from. He watched my CPAC speech. He said, I'm a Nazi

00:37:43.880 and I only want to keep white men alive. I guess I want to kill everyone other than the white men. 1.00

00:37:48.480 Which if I kill the white women, then there aren't going to be any more white men. But anyway, 1.00

00:37:51.420 that's, I'll try to work through that illogic at some point. But he did that from his public

00:37:57.580 Twitter account. The question with Walsh and AOC is that she may have done it from a burner Twitter

00:38:04.760 account. Sort of like Mitt Romney had his burner account, Pierre Delecto. This one is called Zaza

00:38:09.260 Demon. The tag is Zaza Smoka. Referred to Walsh as a hateful little freak. Said, I can't wait until

00:38:17.520 you piss off a trans person that actually is as unhinged as you claim to say they all are. Can't 1.00

00:38:22.860 be a bigot if you're no longer breathing. Smiley face. Now, we get these kinds of comments all the

00:38:28.280 time. I wouldn't think twice of it. Except this account referred, responded to a criticism of AOC

00:38:37.720 with the first person singular pronoun. Saying, I didn't do this. I didn't do that. Now, it's a

00:38:42.480 little unclear. I'm not saying that this is AOC. It's just a little weird. And people are raising

00:38:47.980 the question, okay? And many people are talking about it, okay? So, whether it's AOC or not AOC,

00:38:52.940 certainly AOC should condemn this. It's very clear. The question is being raised. I just think

00:38:58.700 it's very, you know, as Matt pointed out last night, silence is violence. So, I certainly call

00:39:04.060 on AOC to condemn whoever this person is who's running the account. What's weird is when the

00:39:10.600 prospect was raised that this was AOC's burner, the account got deleted. It's kind of weird.

00:39:16.080 If it were just an anonymous account, if it weren't really AOC and then it got all this attention,

00:39:20.700 you'd think the account would remain active, it would be the best thing ever to happen.

00:39:24.020 So, anyway, I don't know. I'm just waiting for AOC to condemn these sorts of comments,

00:39:28.620 whether she wrote them or not. The impact of the Bible on literacy and society is profound.

00:39:34.520 Some would say foundational. It has influenced all aspects of human life, including literature,

00:39:39.000 art, culture, government, and our lives. In fact, no other book has mattered anywhere near as much

00:39:46.020 as the Bible. Join Jordan Peterson in his special, Logos in Literacy, where he traces the Bible

00:39:50.440 through history to show you the impact that it has had on the Western world.

00:39:54.320 I was very much struck by how the translation of the biblical writings jump-started the development

00:40:02.500 of literacy across the entire world. Illiteracy was the norm. The pastor's home was the first school,

00:40:10.000 and every morning it would begin with singing. The Christian faith is a singing religion. Probably 0.97

00:40:16.240 80% of scripture memorization today exists only because of what is sung.

00:40:20.120 This is amazing. Here we have a Gutenberg Bible, a Bible printed on the press of Johann Gutenberg.

00:40:28.120 Science and religion are opposing forces in the world, but historically that has not been the case.

00:40:35.300 Now the book is available to everyone. From Shakespeare to modern education and medicine

00:40:42.500 and science to civilization itself. It is the most influential book in all of history,

00:40:49.980 and hopefully people can walk away with at least a sense of that.

00:40:56.180 Logos in Literacy is free at dailywireplus.com, but only for a few more days. So take advantage of

00:41:02.240 your last chance to watch Logos in Literacy for free at dailywireplus.com. On this show,

00:41:09.520 I focus a lot on macro political issues, political trends that do not just cover weeks or months,

00:41:17.120 but cover decades or centuries. That's just what I am most interested in, and I think it explains the

00:41:23.980 most about our current political situation when you look at these cultural, religious, philosophical,

00:41:29.920 and practical and practical political trends. However, I don't want to neglect the importance of

00:41:38.840 individual political administrations.

00:41:45.300 Saudi Arabia has just announced that it's going to cut oil production by a million barrels of oil a day.

00:41:53.480 Saudi Arabia will lead the members of OPEC, including Russia,

00:41:56.760 to cut that million barrels of output a day starting next month.

00:42:01.620 This will cause higher U.S. inflation. Saudi Arabia then said it would cut production by another

00:42:09.520 half million barrels a day starting in May. Why is Saudi Arabia doing this? Because it doesn't like

00:42:17.120 Joe Biden. Saudi Arabia, one of our best allies in the Middle East, had a great relationship with

00:42:23.340 Saudi Arabia for many decades, and Trump had a great relationship with Saudi Arabia. And then Joe

00:42:27.520 Biden, because he wanted to suck up to Iran, decided to try to make a pariah of Saudi Arabia.

00:42:34.500 Joe Biden, because he was bungling into the war in Ukraine, a war which he largely enabled,

00:42:41.940 even according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, tried to make a pariah of Saudi Arabia. And Saudi 0.80

00:42:46.840 Arabia didn't like that. Joe Biden, who then tried to make up for his failures by releasing

00:42:50.820 a huge amount of our strategic petroleum reserve to try to get himself through the midterm elections,

00:42:56.240 Saudi Arabia didn't like that too much. And so now Saudi Arabia is striking back.

00:43:02.480 In just two years, this administration has wrought such destruction on the United States,

00:43:10.420 completely destroyed our economy, further exacerbated, greatly exacerbated,

00:43:17.820 the problems of our illegal immigration system, bears much of the responsibility for starting the 1.00

00:43:27.820 first major war in Europe since World War II, potentially the beginning of World War III,

00:43:33.620 destroyed our energy sector. Eggs now cost $9 a dozen. They've just ruined everything.

00:43:41.940 They just, the record is a record of pure failure, the likes of which we have not seen since Jimmy

00:43:48.920 Carter. This just is what happened under Jimmy Carter. We're supposed to say that history doesn't

00:43:55.780 repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This is just repetition. This is repeating itself. This is barely

00:44:01.740 a rhyme anymore. This just seems to be a full on copy. This man is the worst president I've ever seen.

00:44:13.820 And I mean that not even in his degree of radicalism or evil. He doesn't, he is the most radical president, 0.92

00:44:21.120 but only because that's the way that the wind in his party is blowing. Joe Biden doesn't believe a thing

00:44:24.720 and he never has. Obama was a little more focused and a little more ideological than Biden. But Barack

00:44:32.440 Obama was also more competent than Biden. And just on the basic matters of competence, Joe Biden is

00:44:39.820 terrible. You would think that would be the one thing that Joe Biden would be pretty good at because

00:44:43.220 he's been around the federal government for over 50 years now. Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S.

00:44:48.540 Senate in the early 70s. And he remained there until he became the vice president. Then he was vice

00:44:54.240 president until 2016. And then four years later, he became the president. So in an almost uninterrupted

00:44:59.600 track, he's been in the government forever. You'd think he could just do the basic stuff. And he

00:45:03.240 can't. The country's falling around around us because not only do we have a wicked and absurd

00:45:09.740 ideology that is insisting that we all live in lies constantly, that's not going to lead to

00:45:13.820 national flourishing. But he also just can't do the basic stuff that government requires.

00:45:20.140 Now, we have some good leaders around the country at the state level. A lot of people talk about Ron

00:45:25.720 DeSantis, rightly so. But got to talk about my own governor here, Bill Lee. Bill Lee has just proposed

00:45:34.780 a bill to arm every school in Tennessee, not just every public school, but every private school as

00:45:41.480 well, to have the resources necessary to hire an armed guard if Governor Lee gets his plan through the

00:45:47.700 Republican legislature. This is the only thing we know that works to protect kids. You might bemoan

00:45:53.460 the fact that we need to arm teachers and have armed security guards and redo the security features

00:46:01.900 at these schools. So that's too bad. In the good old days, we didn't even lock our doors. Yeah,

00:46:06.060 that's true. But in the good old days, we knew the difference between men and women. In the good old 1.00

00:46:09.480 days, we didn't allow 2 million foreign nationals illegally to enter our country every year.

00:46:14.040 In the good old days, we agreed on basic things. In the good old days, we generally went to church.

00:46:19.640 In the good old days, we didn't murder 800,000 babies a year. In the good old days, we spoke

00:46:24.480 the same language. And the good old days are gone, folks. And we live in a brave new world. And so in

00:46:29.680 this brave new world, kids are at risk at school. And I say this as the father of young sons who are not

00:46:36.540 in school yet, I am not going to send my kid to any school that is not totally secure. And so Bill

00:46:43.720 Lee is applying eternal political principles, the principle of self-protection, to changing

00:46:50.980 circumstances and saying, if you want to protect kids, banning some gun that the Democrats hate,

00:46:55.940 not going to do it. If you want to protect kids, encouraging some absurd ideology that the Democrats

00:47:01.460 love is not going to do it. You know what's going to do it? Giving good guys guns to shoot the bad

00:47:09.440 guys with guns. That's what's going to do it. It's a great, great proposal. And I'm glad that our 0.95

00:47:15.480 governor here understands really basic stuff. I wish that other political leaders in the country,

00:47:21.180 it's not rocket science, folks. Okay. Now we got a guy on, friend of mine, who wants to have the top

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 04, 2023

Ep. 1217 - Trump Arrested By Woke Basket Of Deplorables

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