The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1221 - Transgenderism Is Not The Religion Of Peace

00:00:00.000 Happy Easter, everyone. Some great news to start off the Paschal season.

00:00:05.000 Tennessee lawmakers have voted to expel two of their Democrat colleagues from the State House

00:00:10.960 of Representatives after those colleagues shut down the legislative session and led a mob

00:00:15.760 across the House floor to intimidate lawmakers. There was a third Democrat legislator who was

00:00:22.220 involved, but her behavior was slightly less obscene than that of the other two. So she was

00:00:27.000 able to survive the expulsion motion by a single vote. Still pretty good news, though, right?

00:00:31.780 Democracy defeats the unruly mob. Everyone should be happy. But one vice president, Kamala Harris,

00:00:40.680 is not. It wasn't about the three of these leaders. It was about who they were representing.

00:00:47.400 It's about whose voices they were channeling.

00:00:50.580 Understand that. And is that not what a democracy allows?

00:01:02.740 A democracy says you don't silence the people. You do not stifle the people. You don't turn

00:01:09.520 off their microphones when they are speaking about the importance of life and liberty.

00:01:20.480 That is not what a democracy does.

00:01:23.260 So first of all, that is literally what a democracy does. Tennessee lawmakers acted entirely within their

00:01:28.840 rights, actually within their obligations as duly elected representatives, to expel the people who

00:01:34.900 tried to undermine the democratic process. Second, Kamala Harris gave that speech in Nashville. 1.00

00:01:40.620 Nice to see she finally remembered where Tennessee is. The administration couldn't be bothered to show

00:01:46.080 up after a trans-identifying shooter targeted and murdered six people, including children, at a

00:01:52.000 Christian elementary school in the lead up to Easter. But now that Democrats lost some seats for

00:01:57.260 trying to overthrow the statehouse, now Kamala remembers how to get to Nashville. Interesting. 1.00

00:02:02.200 Third, though, haven't Kamala and her crew been telling us for two years now that disrupting

00:02:09.700 legislative sessions is the worst crime imaginable in our sacred democracy? That it's an insurrection

00:02:18.120 that threatens everything we hold dear? And that's just when regular people are doing it. Forget about when

00:02:24.240 the legislators themselves are doing it. Usually it's Democrats who are actually rioting, of course.

00:02:32.200 In which case, that's a wonderful expression of democracy. Of course, it's absurd. Of course,

00:02:36.580 it's a double standard. But calling out hypocrisy and a three or four bucks in Biden's economy will

00:02:43.420 get you a cup of coffee. It used to be a buck 50, but inflation has made it tough. Calling out hypocrisy

00:02:47.820 is how conservatives are going to pass the time when the liberals finally haul us off to the gulags.

00:02:53.100 The great news here is that Republicans are wielding political power against their opponents in a just,

00:03:01.100 prudent, and swift way. Republicans around the rest of the country should take note. This

00:03:05.960 is how you deal with liars and bullies. Great job, Tennessee. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the

00:03:11.420 Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The mob is getting really, really crazy. There was a mob

00:03:25.000 that violently attacked Riley Gaines, who is a young female athlete speaking out against the 0.98

00:03:32.480 transgender madness. And she was pummeled over at San Francisco State. We'll get to that in just a 1.00

00:03:37.800 little bit. First, though, speaking of mobs, did you see the story out of Texas? This is probably the

00:03:43.460 most egregious miscarriage of justice I've seen in at least three or four hours now. I don't know.

00:03:48.440 They keep coming pretty rapidly. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry, he's a guy who was driving his car,

00:03:57.120 minding his own business back in 2020. He found himself surrounded by BLM rioters. And a BLM

00:04:04.540 rioter was carrying an AK-47, pointing that AK-47 at Daniel Perry, at his car. And as the rioters killed

00:04:14.100 dozens of people, this man is being threatened directly with a weapon, with a pretty serious rifle.

00:04:21.280 And so Daniel Perry defended himself and shot the man who was pointing the gun at him. Open and shut

00:04:29.020 case, right? And this is Texas, too, which is a pretty reasonable state. So initially, it was all

00:04:34.980 fine. Then a George Soros-backed district attorney took over and decided to pursue charges against a man

00:04:43.260 for defending himself against an unruly mob that was pointing a gun at him. Then that district attorney,

00:04:51.580 Jose Garza, decided to, at least according to David Fujit, who is a lead investigating detective in the case,

00:04:58.340 Garza decided to ignore exculpatory evidence of Perry, decided to suppress that exculpatory evidence

00:05:06.160 of Perry, decided that he was going to do whatever he can to put the innocent man, the guy who was

00:05:11.480 protecting himself, behind bars to defend the violent terror mob of Black Lives Matter. 0.92

00:05:19.480 Obviously, Perry needs to be pardoned. And Governor Abbott down there in Texas has said

00:05:25.980 that Perry will receive a full pardon the first moment that the request comes across his desk.

00:05:32.360 That's good. I want to see it, though. I don't want to hear just promises. I don't want this thing

00:05:37.960 to be dragged out. We need an absolute full pardon. I think there should be a full pardon for anybody,

00:05:44.960 any normal person who has been targeted by these Soros prosecutors. Because don't forget,

00:05:51.120 there's two sides to the story of the Soros-backed prosecutors. I know we're not allowed to say it

00:05:55.500 because the Democrats don't want us to open the curtain on their political strategy. But George

00:06:01.780 Soros is one of the most influential Democratic donors. He's given a ton of money over the years,

00:06:06.100 and he remains very, very active in Democrat politics. And in recent years, he's pursued a

00:06:10.440 particular strategy of funding prosecutors in cities with the express intent of letting

00:06:16.780 ordinary criminals off the hook. But then the flip side to that is prosecuting conservatives.

00:06:25.160 You let the leftists who commit actual crimes, you let them off the hook. You find the conservatives

00:06:30.660 who are just being normal and opposing the left, and you try to throw them behind bars.

00:06:36.920 And you've seen the consequences of this broader move within the criminal justice system in recent

00:06:41.340 years. The DOJ is going to go after parents who don't want their kids to get transed in elementary

00:06:45.220 school. The DOJ is going to go after Catholics who go to mass on Sunday. The DOJ is going to go after

00:06:49.380 pro-lifers who are peacefully protesting and who are saying prayers outside of abortion clinics.

00:06:55.020 Meanwhile, they're going to let murderers off the hook. They're going to let millions of illegal

00:06:58.780 aliens who come into the country, they're going to completely let them off the hook. They're going 1.00

00:07:02.220 to let terrorist BLM that burns the country down for eight months, going to let them off the hook. 0.86

00:07:07.420 That's the flip side. And so what the conservatives need to do is not just point out the hypocrisy,

00:07:11.700 not just point out the double standard. We have to do something about it.

00:07:15.220 It's not rocket science, okay? You don't need an advanced degree in political science.

00:07:20.720 The libs are going after the innocent people, and they're letting the criminals off the hook. 1.00

00:07:26.020 We need to reverse that. We need to wield the power we got. So absolutely, Governor Abbott,

00:07:30.980 pardon this man fully. Then let's go further. Let's start prosecuting BLM. Let's go further. 0.67

00:07:36.800 If the libs can prosecute Trump for a non-crime that he allegedly committed seven years ago,

00:07:42.440 I think we can prosecute the leftists who were marauding and raping and pillaging and killing

00:07:48.080 just three years ago. Don't you think we can do that? I think we can. Then we got to go further.

00:07:53.660 We need to recognize that in this bifurcated system of justice, there are political prisoners. There

00:07:58.340 are dissidents who are being persecuted by this regime. And where we've got the power,

00:08:02.820 we got to let them off the hook. And we need to go after the genuine bad guys, okay?

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00:09:25.180 verdicts, President Trump has been indicted now. He's been indicted for this non-crime that he committed

00:09:31.240 seven years ago, which in my view does not even come close to rising to the level of a misdemeanor.

00:09:36.540 But, and it's a very novel legal theory that suggests that it would even be a misdemeanor.

00:09:41.800 But then even more absurd, the prosecutor in New York, Alvin Bragg, is trying to argue that this

00:09:46.620 is a felony. He's not even explaining how this could be a felony. And all of that's silly,

00:09:51.320 but it doesn't mean that they won't convict Trump. In fact, Alan Dershowitz, who has been a lawyer

00:09:56.420 for President Trump, he's been on this show. He's one of the leading legal minds in the country,

00:10:00.800 Harvard Law Professor Emeritus. He says, he thinks Trump is going to be found guilty.

00:10:06.600 I don't think I could get this case dismissed so easily. I don't think that, I don't think that if

00:10:12.640 you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall,

00:10:16.880 a New York City judge would dismiss this case because that New York City judge's life would be

00:10:21.560 over. Everybody would point to him the way they pointed to me when I defended Trump. Oh my God,

00:10:26.900 there's the man who helped Trump get free. So I don't think it's going to be easy. I think he

00:10:31.280 probably will be convicted by a New York jury who voted for Bragg and voted for get Trump.

00:10:39.340 It will be reversed on appeal. It will never be affirmed all the way up to the Supreme Court.

00:10:44.780 But Bragg's going to be popular. He'll be reelected. And he'll probably win his case

00:10:51.180 unless, unless there is a change of venue.

00:10:58.200 Alan Dershowitz is almost certainly right. He's usually right about these things. So you say,

00:11:01.700 okay, well, at least Trump will get off the hook when it's appealed. Okay, is he,

00:11:06.020 he's kind of long in the tooth. Okay, he's a young, vibrant man, certainly in his behavior, but

00:11:12.180 he's, he's not that young. And even forget about the timescale of the rest of his life.

00:11:16.780 What about the timescale of a campaign? How long before this thing, first of all,

00:11:20.540 comes to a guilty verdict, then gets appealed, then maybe goes up to the Supreme Court. It's

00:11:24.020 going to be long after the presidential election. So what matters is not what happens eventually.

00:11:28.860 What matters is what happens over the next 18 months. So putting that aside for a second,

00:11:37.280 putting the legal aspect aside, this continues to be the best argument for the Trump campaign.

00:11:42.180 In a way, this is a win-win. It's a win for Alvin Bragg, the DA, because he knows that he needs to

00:11:49.260 go after Trump to get reelected. He ran on going after Trump, so he's got to go after him to get

00:11:54.120 reelected, even if it'll be overturned, even if it's legally ridiculous. But then two, this is great

00:12:00.100 for Trump's campaign because the best argument for Trump's campaign is not that he's necessarily got

00:12:06.320 the best policies. He's got great policies, and he succeeded at bringing about some great policies

00:12:11.580 as president. He had some clunkers in there, too. So it's a mixed bag, and the other candidates are

00:12:15.400 untested, so they can make the case that they would have better policy. It's not that Trump

00:12:20.400 hires the best people. We know that. Trump himself would say, no, I've had some real losers in there

00:12:24.720 in my crew. It's not that Trump has the most even temperament. Trump has a very charming

00:12:32.260 personality that has served him well for 40 years, but he's turned a lot of people off, too.

00:12:36.660 The argument for Trump is that if the libs hate him this much, that they would go to unprecedented

00:12:47.800 lengths to stop him from being elected, then he must be the best choice. That's the whole argument

00:12:56.060 for the Trump campaign. That's the argument that the other candidates can't make.

00:13:02.620 Governor DeSantis can say, I'm the better version of Trump. I'm putting all these great policies

00:13:07.520 forward in Florida. He can make a very plausible argument for all of that. The one special bonus

00:13:13.440 that Trump has over not just DeSantis, but all the other candidates, is he can say, yeah,

00:13:18.880 but they're going after me the hardest. So while the other campaigns will spin that and say,

00:13:24.400 yeah, see, we have a better shot of getting elected, Trump is going to say, yeah, but they're

00:13:28.660 going after me the hardest. They're going to historic, unprecedented lengths to arrest the

00:13:35.160 president. They're arresting a former president and current leader of the opposition. They're

00:13:39.980 probably going to do it three times before this campaign is over. That tells you exactly why it's

00:13:45.920 got to be me. I'm not saying that's a persuasive argument. I'm just telling you that is the argument

00:13:50.920 for the campaign, and it's the best argument that I've heard so far for the reelection of Trump.

00:13:56.660 So what are the Republicans doing about it? I'm really pleased to say, you know, we're so down,

00:14:00.840 especially on the Republicans a lot of the time, because they're so spineless. But Republicans

00:14:06.760 seem to be growing a spine. This is a nice start to the Easter season. You're seeing now House

00:14:12.520 Republicans moving to go after the prosecutors in this case, and especially Jim Jordan, who is just

00:14:18.240 absolutely terrific. There was some talk that Jim Jordan maybe could become the Speaker of the House

00:14:23.180 when the conservative wing didn't want McCarthy, and the more moderate wing didn't want any of the

00:14:28.560 Freedom Caucus people. And Jim Jordan's name was floated as someone who would be acceptable to all

00:14:33.320 sides. And Jim just said, no, I don't want it. I don't want it. Stop trying to make me be Speaker

00:14:38.560 of the House. I want to stay on judiciary. That's where my expertise is. That's where I've got a plan to

00:14:42.800 do things. Don't give me the worst job in Washington. And people finally respected his

00:14:48.120 decision. Well, now we see why we want Jim Jordan on judiciary. Jim Jordan has decided to subpoena

00:14:52.980 Manhattan prosecutor who resigned because the DA, Alvin Bragg, initially said he would not prosecute

00:14:59.720 Trump. So what's this about? This is a warning shot to Alvin Bragg. This is a warning shot saying,

00:15:05.920 be very careful of how you proceed here, because we're going to come after you, and we're going to

00:15:09.800 come after the people around you, and we're going to dig up all the dirt on how malicious and

00:15:14.980 transparently partisan this prosecution of Trump is. And we're going to bring in a guy who was

00:15:19.400 impelling you to do it at first. And he's going to air all that dirty laundry, and he's got no reason

00:15:24.480 not to do it because he already resigned. How is Congress going to do this? Wouldn't you say,

00:15:29.920 well, this is a matter for the states, you hypocrite conservatives. I thought you respected states'

00:15:35.820 rights, and federalism, and subsidiarity. Let New York do what New York wants to do. Well, here's

00:15:40.940 the legal argument for it. According to Jim, quote, Congress has a specific and manifestly

00:15:48.020 important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former

00:15:53.240 presidents by state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions like New York County,

00:15:58.700 where the prosecutor is popularly elected, and trial level judges lack life tenure. You're saying this

00:16:04.380 is just an aspect of democratic politics, which obviously Congress has some interest in. And they

00:16:09.820 especially have an interest when these prosecutions are against a president, when they're against people

00:16:15.020 from the federal government. This is a really, really great move. And I hope this is just the very

00:16:21.940 first warning shot for the Republicans to say, we're done. We're done with this. We're done being held

00:16:30.260 to an incoherent standard by the left that the left does not recognize. We're done conceding and

00:16:39.640 rolling over and only playing defense, a defensive strategy that has not defended anything. No, we're

00:16:45.540 going to start playing real hardball politics. And we'll do it in a just way. And we'll do it within

00:16:50.840 the bounds of the law. But we're going to do it, okay? So when you come in and you try to disrupt our

00:16:55.940 legislative session, one of those Tennessee three, as they're calling them, from one of these radical

00:17:00.680 leftist Democrat lawmakers who led the mob into the actual legislative session and tried to disrupt

00:17:07.480 the proceedings, that guy had been arrested just a few years ago as a protester, as one of the

00:17:14.560 activists going and assaulting the Speaker of the Tennessee House, okay? These guys are absolute

00:17:18.940 miscreants. They have no business in the legislature. And the Tennessee Republicans are saying, yeah,

00:17:23.860 you're out. Well, we'll call you racist. Okay, cool. We'll call you, I don't know, what other

00:17:34.000 insults do we have? Phobic. Okay, sure. Okay, call me whatever you want. Sticks and stones can break

00:17:41.740 my bones, but your lives will not hurt me. And they will not prevent me from pursuing my political

00:17:47.360 agenda. Jim Jordan, oh, you're going to go after Trump and you're going to pretend this is within the

00:17:51.740 bounds of law. Okay, I think we're going to subpoena the guys around you. We're going to figure out what

00:17:55.240 this is really about. And then we're going to go after you, Mr. Bragg, and we are not going to roll

00:17:59.800 over any more. Now, speaking of controversial people being interviewed, Alyssa Heinerscheid,

00:18:06.300 you probably haven't heard that name before. Alyssa Heinerscheid, no relation to my own sweet little

00:18:11.180 Alyssa, very different women. Alyssa Heinerscheid is the VP of marketing at Bud Light. And here is

00:18:18.220 Alyssa Heinerscheid explaining why Bud Light has gone trans. I'm a businesswoman. I had a really

00:18:25.940 clear job to do when I took over Bud Light. And it was, this brand is in decline. It's been in

00:18:32.360 decline for a really long time. And if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this

00:18:38.560 brand, there will be no future for Bud Light. So I had this super clear mandate. It's like we need to

00:18:43.080 evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. And my, what I brought to that was a belief in,

00:18:52.000 okay, what does, what does, what does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity. It means

00:18:56.660 shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter

00:19:04.400 and different and appeals to women and to men. And representation is at sort of the heart of

00:19:09.760 evolution. You've got to see people who- Put a pause here. So you see, she's using market

00:19:13.520 language. She's saying, look, the brand is in decline. It's all these old men drinking Bud Light, 1.00

00:19:18.600 which I don't think is true, by the way. I think primarily people who drink Bud Light are frat stars.

00:19:22.960 It's true that older, like construction workers and guys at baseball games, that's true. That's a

00:19:28.300 little bit of an older crowd. But it's mostly frat guys, as far as I'm concerned, and young college

00:19:34.560 kids. But okay. And she says, so the way to, look, we just have to do it to evolve the brand.

00:19:38.320 And the way to do it is to appeal to women and men. You know, women and men who famously love

00:19:43.560 transvestitism, right? I don't think they do, but keep going. 1.00

00:19:48.320 People who reflect you in the work. And we had this hangover. I mean, Bud Light had been-

00:19:54.660 People who reflect you. Yeah, nothing reflects me like Dylan Mulvaney. People who reflect 0.1%

00:20:01.100 of the population. Oh, yeah. I finally feel seen. Now I can drink Bud Light because a man 0.98

00:20:08.420 dressed up as Audrey Hepburn, who is a Broadway musical star. Yeah, he just really represents me.

00:20:16.740 And kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor. And it was really important that we had

00:20:26.820 another approach. So she admits, she goes, it's just these old people who do it. 1.00

00:20:31.980 And that's why Bud Light was mostly a fratty kind of brand. Well, people who are in fraternities are

00:20:38.420 not old. They tend to be pretty young. And this is out-of-touch humor. No, you know what's much

00:20:45.700 funnier? Zealous ideological liberals. Yeah, we're just, we're known for our humor.

00:20:51.640 Oh, yeah. All the stand-up comedians. Yeah, they're known for how much they all love political

00:20:57.620 correctness. That's what makes a successful comedian, right? I don't think so. It says we

00:21:02.000 have to appeal to the people. And the way to do that is through transgenderism. According to Pew

00:21:10.380 Research, 60% of Americans say that a person's gender is determined by his biological sex, his

00:21:18.380 sex assigned at birth. By the way, 60%, that's the majority of Americans. That's not a decline.

00:21:25.360 It's not like it used to be 80% and now it's 60%. That's actually an increase just over the last

00:21:30.600 two years. In 2021, it was only 56% who said that. In 2017, it was only 54% who said that. So

00:21:36.500 transgenderism is less accepted today than it was two years ago. And much less accepted today than it was

00:21:44.940 six years ago. The plurality of Americans say that society has gone too far advancing transgender

00:21:52.460 rights. So there are different views about this, but the largest number of people who have any view

00:22:00.880 on transgenderism, according to Pew Research, which is a very respected polling firm, or a very respected

00:22:05.860 research institute, says that we've gone too far. We need to roll back the quote-unquote transgender 1.00

00:22:12.760 rights, of which there are none, by the way, because transgenderism is a false anthropology. 1.00

00:22:17.280 So it's just, it's wrong about human nature and wrongs cannot be rights. That's why they call them

00:22:21.340 rights. So this isn't about helping the company adapt to the culture. That's not what this is about.

00:22:26.960 This is about, as it always is, forcing the culture to adapt to leftism through the companies.

00:22:36.460 She's making this disingenuous market argument. Look, it's just about adapting to changing times. No,

00:22:41.280 you people are forcing the changing times by grabbing up a lot of political power and then

00:22:47.760 wielding it against the desires of the people, be they through the democratic process or be they

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00:25:17.520 John Leguizamo, fairly well-known actor, John Leguizamo will not watch the Mario movie. He has

00:25:26.580 come out against the Mario movie. Why? Because there aren't any Latinos in it. 0.97

00:25:34.100 Are you going to be watching Super Mario Brothers? No, I will not be watching Super Mario Brothers. Oh my

00:25:38.440 goodness. They could have included a Latin character. Like, I was groundbreaking, then they

00:25:43.260 stopped the groundbreaking. I know. Well, you know what? They messed up. They messed up the inclusion.

00:25:47.940 They dis-included. I know. What's up? Right. So what do you say to people, you know, who might

00:25:53.180 actually go out and support this? Should you say, hey guys, if you stand for inclusion,

00:25:57.240 maybe you shouldn't- Just catch some Latin folk. Catch some Latin folk. We're 20% of the population,

00:26:02.500 the largest people of color group, and we're underrepresented, over-representing the worst 1.00

00:26:08.120 kind of jobs, though. Oh, I know. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, sure. So no Super Mario

00:26:12.900 Brothers for you? Hell no. Hell no. They didn't make Mario Mexican. So I don't know who needs to hear 0.92

00:26:21.060 this. I think maybe John Leguizamo is the only person who needs to hear this. Mario is Italian.

00:26:31.080 Mario is not Mexican or Salvadoran or Peruvian or Argentinian. His whole character is that he is

00:26:43.820 Italian. So if you boycott the Mario movie because they didn't cast a Mexican as an Italian,

00:26:55.640 you're just saying you hate white people. And Italians aren't even that white. They are the

00:27:01.860 least white of the white people. They are a racially liminal, ethnically ambiguous part of

00:27:09.680 whatever makes up white people. You know what it is? To quote Syl from The Sopranos,

00:27:15.900 it's anti-Italian discrimination. And it's anti-white discrimination just generally.

00:27:22.460 It's this argument that, yeah, we don't like white people. We don't want white people to play even 0.97

00:27:27.940 the white people roles. We only want non-white people to play the white people roles. And if 0.95

00:27:33.780 any white person dares play a non-white role, we're going to call that blackface or brownface, 0.99

00:27:40.100 and we're going to ruin your life, and we're going to take away your career. 0.89

00:27:44.700 Mario is Italian. Mario is it. We're now at the stage of society where it is controversial to say

00:27:53.940 babies are people, men are not women, and Mario and Luigi are Italian.

00:28:06.160 Now, speaking of the second part of that identity mayhem that we're living through right now,

00:28:13.380 Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines, you know her, young college athlete, speaking out against the transgender 1.00

00:28:20.620 agenda, meeting a lot of pushback. We all meet pushback when we talk out about that.

00:28:25.180 She was just violently attacked at San Francisco State. So Riley Gaines,

00:28:30.720 she was escorted out of her speech, cops are pulling her away from the mob.

00:28:38.800 What they did was they tripped the lights during her speech so she was unprotected. No one could

00:28:50.000 really see her. And then the mob people start punching her in the head, hitting her. 1.00

00:28:53.840 And then these curiously demon-resembling maniacs start chasing her into a room and start screaming,

00:29:09.500 yeah, you're crying, you C-word, you B-word. 0.99

00:29:15.340 Trans.

00:29:15.940 Trans.

00:29:16.140 And then they locked her in that room. She was stuck in that room for three hours.

00:29:28.420 Why couldn't the cops just start beating these people down, these violent agitators? Why couldn't

00:29:34.360 the cops just at least pull out their billy clubs and just start beating them into submission? I don't 0.51

00:29:38.640 know. I don't know. What are the cops there for? They brought Riley into the room to protect her. 0.67

00:29:45.940 But when there is a violent mob that has already been inflicting violence on a poor young woman,

00:29:51.620 that's when the cops are supposed to get violent too against the people who instigated the violence.

00:29:57.840 That's the point of having cops. I don't even totally blame the officers. They know what's

00:30:03.080 going to happen. They know the minute that they in any way use their just authority to stop

00:30:09.960 a current threat, a current violent action from a protected class like the so-called transgender 1.00

00:30:19.060 people. They know their life is over. They're not only going to lose their jobs, they're going to

00:30:22.320 be prosecuted. It raises the question when you see a video like that, which doesn't even show the

00:30:27.980 first assault because they shut the lights off in the room when they started attacking her.

00:30:31.100 It raises this question, why is this group so particularly violent?

00:30:38.300 I've been in and around politics for a pretty long time. I worked my first campaign when I was 19

00:30:42.660 years old, first national campaign. And we've run afoul of all sorts of leftist groups.

00:30:52.400 There were all sorts of little leftist activist groups, the feminists, the environmentalists,

00:30:56.600 the this group, the that group. And they all get kind of feisty. I can just tell you firsthand

00:31:02.940 the violence and the threats and the reaction from the transgender activists, it's on a completely 0.98

00:31:12.940 different level. It's almost different in kind rather than degree. Why is that?

00:31:18.600 We all know. We all know, even though I know we're not allowed to say it on big tech.

00:31:26.480 Why is it that this group of people tends to be so unreasonable in their behavior? With a lot of

00:31:34.840 other groups, when they start making threats against a young woman who's giving a speech at a

00:31:38.700 college, usually you say, oh, it's such BS, who cares? Keyboard warriors, they're not going to do

00:31:42.760 anything. They'll come to their senses before they do anything crazy. Unless the group is defined

00:31:50.880 specifically by its lack of reasonableness, specifically by a defect in their reason.

00:32:00.660 This is why the Libs are leaning so hard on the transgender mob right now. 1.00

00:32:07.060 There are other reasons why the Libs have pushed the transgender ideology. But one of the reasons that 0.92

00:32:11.200 they're leaning so hard on the transgender mob is because they lean on all sorts of groups to go do 0.73

00:32:16.560 their dirty work for them and to use violence in the streets. And then what they do is they elect

00:32:20.160 prosecutors to just let their militia wing off the hook. But one of the reasons that they're

00:32:27.700 leaning so hard on the transgender group right now is because it is unreasonable by definition.

00:32:34.940 And so when those threats come in, you have to take them a little more seriously because

00:32:39.580 unreasonable people cannot be counted on to come to their reason. Now, what did San Francisco State

00:32:45.920 do about this? You know what they did? They issued an apology letter to the protesters. They did the

00:32:53.300 same thing when I was attacked. Luckily, I was only attacked with a squirt gun full of whatever weird

00:32:57.640 liquids were in that squirt gun. It was also on the transgender issue when years ago, before the 0.96

00:33:01.940 transgender thing really became the big national issue that it is. This was back in 2017, 2018 or something.

00:33:07.520 I gave a speech called Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths. And the chancellor of the

00:33:12.620 school wrote an apology letter that I was invited in the first place. Well, here you had, dear San

00:33:16.920 Francisco State community, today San Francisco State finds itself again at the center of a national

00:33:20.900 discussion regarding freedom of speech and expression. Let me begin by clearly saying the trans

00:33:24.560 community is welcome and belongs at San Francisco State. Not the poor young woman who was violently

00:33:29.900 attacked and sent running into a room barricaded for three hours. No, no, no. The mob. We want you to know

00:33:37.340 your mob is welcome here. Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening's event

00:33:43.200 peacefully. They knocked this poor woman's clock. They chased her, battered into a room. 0.99

00:33:48.260 Hulking dudes beat up a woman, a young woman at a speech for speaking, chased her into a room. And the

00:33:57.420 VP of student affairs at San Francisco State says thank you to our students who participated peacefully

00:34:03.980 in Thursday evening's event. I'm so proud. I'm proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the

00:34:10.100 value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. They didn't protest peacefully. They beat up a

00:34:15.520 young woman. It's because according to the libs who have the political power, conservative speech is 0.94

00:34:23.280 violence and leftist violence is speech. And that's just what they mean. So we can whine about the

00:34:29.920 hypocrisy. We can whine about the double standard or we can go in, let our guys off the hook who have

00:34:36.760 been prosecuted unjustly and throw their people who have not been prosecuted unjustly, who have unjustly

00:34:44.160 not been prosecuted. And we can throw them in the clink. And we can tell the police to do their jobs.

00:34:49.500 And we can give the police the freedom to do their jobs. And we can tell the lawmakers and the

00:34:53.180 legislators kick out the miscreants who are upsetting the whole system. And we can say no to

00:35:00.280 ideologies that are patently false. And we can make certain exclusions from society. And we can come to

00:35:05.720 certain conclusions. And we can say, you know, we might keep an open mind about a lot of things,

00:35:10.560 but we know that men are not women. And if you say that men are women, then you belong in a classroom

00:35:19.800 to learn the truth, or you belong in a madhouse to learn the truth a little bit more forcefully.

00:35:25.460 But we are not going to let you guys violently upend our whole society. My favorite comment yesterday

00:35:34.700 is from Sean Hurley, who says to think, Jack Daniels used to be the drink of outlaw biker gangs.

00:35:42.620 And now, now it's the drink of drag queens. And it's actually, they could have the same kind of 1.00

00:35:48.080 image. It's just previously, it was the drink of, you know, Hell's Angels. And now it's the drink of

00:35:53.760 the biker from the village people. So it's definitely a little bit of a different aesthetic, but

00:35:59.900 it's variations on a theme. That's true. And if the transgender activists remain as violent as they 1.00

00:36:07.500 are, then Jack Daniels is going to be appealing to a group that is no less violent than they used

00:36:13.120 to. Actually, a lot more violent. A lot more violent. How do we deal with this stuff?

00:36:20.640 I think a real key here is we've got to be the reasonable ones. Okay? Being reasonable doesn't

00:36:31.780 mean being conciliatory. It doesn't mean rolling over. Quite the opposite. When you are reasonable,

00:36:37.440 when you have a clear vision of true and false and right and wrong, you can be very effective.

00:36:43.280 You can be very forceful. There's no ambiguity. There's no meat in the middle. There's no,

00:36:47.280 well, should we trans the six-year-olds or the nine-year-olds? There's none of that. 0.72

00:36:50.740 It's just, no, okay, we can know that something is true, and we know that this other thing is false.

00:36:54.680 And so everybody agrees with us on that. The majority of Americans know transgenderism is

00:36:59.820 insane. And so the majority of Americans know transgenderism is not true. And actually, 0.93

00:37:06.900 the numbers are moving more in our direction, more in the direction of truth than in the direction

00:37:11.140 of falsehood. So what the libs want us to do is to seem like we're screaming and angry and crazy

00:37:16.380 and unreasonable. But no, we're not filled with hate. We're not phobic. We don't want to genocide

00:37:20.960 anybody. We're just telling the truth as everybody knows it to be the truth, which is that men and

00:37:27.200 women are not the same. That's very powerful. They want to trigger us into an unreasonable reaction. 1.00

00:37:34.080 We shouldn't give that in. Reason is on our side here. You see this in one instantiation of the weird

00:37:39.560 sex wars going on. You see this with the push to put porn into elementary and middle school

00:37:44.360 classrooms and libraries. So there is a parent in Texas, or I'm sorry, in upstate New York.

00:37:51.780 This is a parent, the Pittsburgh schools, Barker Road Middle School. He shows up. He gives a master

00:37:57.200 class in how to present this issue to the public. And he did it at a school board meeting.

00:38:01.740 Let's try another scenario. It's your daughter's 15th birthday party with a group of her friends and

00:38:07.760 family gathered around. Are you going to give her a copy of Girl in Translation and maybe read a

00:38:14.280 little bit from it to the group? I'd never been naked with a man before, and Matt's skin felt warm

00:38:20.440 and rough. He must have taken care of the condom somehow, and then suddenly he was inside me.

00:38:26.020 I gasped, but it hadn't hurt as much as I'd expected it to, and then I couldn't think at

00:38:32.460 all anymore. When he finally came, he started to cry again. I held him tenderly in my arms.

00:38:40.000 We lay there together, both breathing hard, returning to ourselves. Your reaction tells me that you would

00:38:47.180 not give this book to your daughter. Then why is it assigned to 15-year-old 10th graders?

00:38:52.740 I included in your handouts a printout of a page from the U.S. Department of Justice's website that

00:39:00.640 discusses obscenity. In it, it states the following, federal law strictly prohibits the distribution of

00:39:08.380 obscene matter to minors. So put a pause here. You see how this guy's monotonous voice is actually

00:39:17.780 helping his argument here. This guy's level of cool and calm is really helping his argument.

00:39:25.100 It's disarming. None of the school board members are yelling at him. Sometimes in these school board

00:39:31.500 showdowns, when the parents get really fired up, that gives the school board members an opening

00:39:37.100 to say, hey, stop, calm down, don't sit. But he's just, he's presenting himself as the most boring guy

00:39:44.180 in the world to great rhetorical effect. And he's just saying, hey, listen, simple scenario. You're 15-year-old

00:39:51.040 because this particular book is being taught in 10th grade. You're 15-year-old at a birthday party.

00:39:55.420 Would you want her reading this book? And he just reads it and he doesn't even have that much emphasis

00:39:59.580 on the, he just says, this is a chapter. Would you want your kid reading that? No, probably not.

00:40:04.620 But then he anticipates the next question. He says, well, what are we supposed to do about it?

00:40:09.580 We can't ban books. That would be terrible. The liberals tell us that banning books is the worst

00:40:13.280 thing in the world. He says, here's what federal law says about obscenity. The content that I've

00:40:20.260 just read to you is obviously obscene and pornographic. How do you scientifically figure

00:40:24.620 out what's obscene and what's art? Well, there's no scientific process, but come on, let's be real.

00:40:29.000 We all know it when we see it. So you know that this is pornographic. You know that this is obscene.

00:40:35.260 You know it's up to the political community and the democracy to come up with standards for this.

00:40:39.040 We all agree on those standards. I've just gotten you to agree with that by implicitly saying,

00:40:42.760 yeah, you wouldn't want your kid reading it at a birthday party. Okay. So here's what the

00:40:46.360 federal law says about it. Here's why you are allowed to ban this book. But then he takes his

00:40:53.440 argument one step further. Any transfer or attempt to transfer such material to a minor under the age

00:40:59.540 of 16, including over the internet, is punishable under federal law. It appears that the members of the

00:41:08.140 board, the supervisor, some of the teachers, and some of the librarians may be guilty of

00:41:15.460 trafficking and pornography to our children. I point this out because if you're not interested

00:41:21.100 in taking care of our children by not providing them with pornography, maybe you'd be interested

00:41:26.460 in saving yourselves from serious legal action that might land you behind bars or at a minimum

00:41:32.640 expose you to an awful lot of public attention for your role in this child abuse. I suggest you read

00:41:39.840 this handout in its entirety and not ignore it. It might be a very good starting point for the

00:41:45.060 discussion you should have with your attorneys. Love it. There it is. He starts out. He says,

00:41:53.540 hey, let's be reasonable. Let's just level with each other here. I'm not showboating. I'm clearly not

00:41:59.620 showboating. I'm giving a very monotone, reserved speech. Let's be real. You know this book is wrong.

00:42:06.920 You wouldn't want your kids reading it. Now, I'm going to point to the law to show you how maybe you

00:42:13.840 were confused. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you didn't realize that you have

00:42:18.420 this power, this legal power, to proscribe this book and other obscenity. Okay, so I'm giving you

00:42:25.100 that benefit of the doubt. But if you won't listen to reason, here's the threat. The consequence of

00:42:35.820 that law is that if you guys keep this book in the classroom, you might very well be guilty of

00:42:43.480 distributing obscene material to minors. And maybe we've got the political power in our state. Maybe

00:42:50.400 we don't. At the state level in New York, we don't. In the local level, maybe they do. Upstate New York

00:42:56.280 is pretty conservative. You are opening yourself up to legal action from us. We are not going to just

00:43:04.960 suggest meekly that you do the right thing. If you don't do the right thing, we're going to prosecute

00:43:12.820 you. We're going to bring the law down. We're going to wield the political power against you. So maybe

00:43:17.700 you ought to think twice about it. That's the way to do it. It's almost the perfect speech

00:43:22.620 on this issue. It's the best one I've heard yet. This should be taught in conservative oratory and

00:43:30.040 rhetoric and statecraft classes. This and the politicians should follow through on this. 0.82

00:43:36.480 Because the rhetoric is not going to have any force if we don't follow through, if we don't start

00:43:41.420 prosecuting people under these laws, if we don't start kicking out the legislators who undermine the

00:43:46.480 legislature, if we don't start subpoenaing the corrupt prosecutors who are trying to undo our

00:43:55.720 political system by going after the leader of the political opposition who happens to be a former

00:43:59.480 president. It's not going to have any effect if we don't do it. It's just all going to be talk.

00:44:05.520 And talk is very cheap. Got to follow. If we don't start pardoning the political prisoners

00:44:12.660 who the current regime arrests unjustly. And if we don't start prosecuting the criminals who are the

00:44:21.680 cause of a lot of these problems in the first place. Beautiful, beautiful speech. I hope the libs

00:44:27.300 get the message. And I hope conservatives get the message. We don't need to be unreasonable. We don't

00:44:33.060 need to take the bait. Reason is on our side. Don't cede that territory to the libs. Reason is on our side. 0.90

00:44:41.460 And then when you come to certain conclusions through the use of your intellect, that is when

00:44:46.740 you can use your will to bring those conclusions to bear in public life. And that means promoting

00:44:54.660 good things and eradicating bad ideas. Now, unfortunately, in our current culture, we're

00:45:02.720 getting the opposite. So we just had Easter. I had a lovely Easter. I hope you all had a lovely Easter.

00:45:07.780 Easter weekend is when Walter Reed, the government hospital, decides to kick Catholic priests out of

00:45:19.920 the hospital because they don't want priests in there getting the good news out, even on Easter week.

00:45:29.500 I wish there were some more complicated issue going on here. There's nothing more complicated. The

00:45:36.020 Biden administration, like the Obama administration, just hates Christianity and hates the representatives

00:45:41.460 of Christianity. So Obama, while Biden is vice president, sues nuns for being nuns. And the Biden

00:45:48.340 administration is now kicking Catholic priests out of the Walter Reed Hospital. Government sent a cease

00:45:54.020 and desist to these Catholic priests. The order was issued because it said, no, we've got other pastoral

00:46:01.660 ministers coming in. We're not going to let you Catholics in anymore. The administration is just 1.00

00:46:07.560 hostile to Christianity. It's amazing. We look over at China. We say, China suppresses Christianity. Yeah, 1.00

00:46:13.220 it does. But before you accuse someone else, maybe you ought to take a look in the mirror.

00:46:18.440 However, these terrible nations on earth, they're suppressing Christianity. What about our country? 1.00

00:46:24.080 Sues nuns, tells Christians they can't go to their church during COVID for years. When the Christians can go to 0.99

00:46:30.700 the church, the feds send federal agents in to infiltrate the churches, to spy on the Christians, and now says

00:46:37.100 that the priests can't go talk to sick people. To administer one of the most important sacraments of the church,

00:46:41.380 which is extreme unction, last rites. That's the state of things, okay? And so we've got to come

00:46:48.820 to certain conclusions about that. And it can't just be, well, anybody can come in. They're going to send

00:46:54.540 drag queens into your kid's kindergarten class, but they're not going to allow priests to go in and give 1.00

00:46:59.200 the sacraments to sick people. That's where we are. That's how flipped the society is. So are we

00:47:07.640 willing, we are the reasonable ones here. Everyone knows that's unreasonable. So are we willing to

00:47:13.920 stand by our conclusions and then enforce those conclusions with the law? I am. Tennessee legislators

00:47:20.920 are. Jim Jordan is. Are you? Are you? I hope so. The rest of the show continues now. It's Music

00:47:31.480 Monday, baby. You don't want to miss it. It's dailywire.com. Code Knowles at checkout for two months

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 10, 2023

Ep. 1221 - Transgenderism Is Not The Religion Of Peace

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