The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1228 - Trans-Activists Burn Images of Me At Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest

00:00:00.000 I had a marvelous time at the University of Pittsburgh last night.

00:00:03.580 Our debate on the topic of transgenderism hosted by ISI was able to take place

00:00:08.660 despite protests from leftist students, administrators, state legislators, and many

00:00:14.880 other people. My debate partner, Professor Donald McCloskey, dropped out at the last minute.

00:00:20.560 But we found an able substitute in Brad Palumbo. The moderator, my friend Leah Labresco Sargent,

00:00:26.440 raised excellent questions, and the room was filled to capacity. Given the countless obstacles

00:00:30.720 put up to stop this debate, I thought it turned out great, and you can catch the whole thing

00:00:35.040 on the ISI YouTube channel. But, but, then I saw some coverage of the event from a left-wing

00:00:44.780 Pitt student. The student wrote, quote, Pitt protests of Michael Knowles remained peaceful.

00:00:53.280 And as great as I think the whole thing came off, that, that's not exactly true. For those who

00:00:59.080 weren't there, the leftist protesters set off explosives. They blocked the entrance and they

00:01:06.760 burned me in effigy. The attendees were forced to sit in the room for hours after the event because

00:01:13.040 the rioters outside were so violent and threatening. But this is what conservatives have come to expect

00:01:19.680 on campus. Conservatives who speak common sense are called violent. And the leftists who try to attack

00:01:25.740 us are described as mostly peaceful. A sign, I'm sorry to say, of a mostly collapsed civil society.

00:01:34.480 I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:36.080 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of the topic, the topic that we can never stop talking about,

00:01:49.660 men and women and transgenderism. The two spokesmen of transgenderism in our pop culture, 0.67

00:01:58.060 Dylan Mulvaney and Jeffrey Marsh, they've teamed up. I haven't even watched this whole

00:02:03.020 meeting of the minds. We will get to it, though. We will get to it later on in the show. First,

00:02:09.140 though, speaking of attacks, another pro-life pregnancy center has been attacked. You may

00:02:15.860 have heard about these attacks happening around the country. You certainly haven't heard about them

00:02:18.980 in CNN or the New York Times or any of the establishment media. We've tried to cover it,

00:02:22.720 though. There have been a lot of attacks by pro-abortion fanatics on pro-life pregnancy centers,

00:02:27.740 on crisis pregnancy centers. So one in Bowling Green, Ohio, was spray painted with

00:02:32.900 messages saying, fund abortion and abort God. This was claimed by Jane's Revenge, which is one of

00:02:43.160 these radical pro-abortion groups that keeps attacking the pro-life centers. So I mentioned

00:02:48.100 this not even to call attention to another pro-life center being attacked. That's not exactly a man

00:02:53.340 bites dog story, I'm sorry to say. That's been happening pretty regularly. But the language here

00:02:58.140 tells you what you need to know. Ultimately, this is an attack on God. And no matter how much the

00:03:07.140 secularists want to say, no, this has nothing to do with religion. This has nothing to do with

00:03:12.040 metaphysical reality. It's just about women controlling their bodies. It's not. It's always 1.00

00:03:16.340 coming back to God. It's always coming back to good or evil. It's always coming back to doing the right

00:03:23.860 thing or doing the wrong thing. What we're talking about here, once you get past all of the euphemisms,

00:03:28.860 is you're talking about human sacrifice. You're talking about the mass sacrifice of babies. And

00:03:35.220 the people who are really, really into that, I know the moderate liberal secularists will be shocked

00:03:41.220 to hear this. The people who are really into the mass slaughter and sacrifice of babies, they tend to have

00:03:47.800 some pretty specific, pretty dark spiritual ideas. And no one should be surprised when you find

00:03:54.060 slogans like, abort God, vandalized onto these pro-life pregnancy centers. No one should be

00:04:00.620 surprised when there are self-described practicing witches and Satanists who are just always hanging

00:04:06.640 around the Planned Parenthood clinics. So strange. All around the country, you always see these same

00:04:11.620 kinds of people. How eccentric. What a coincidence. It's not a coincidence. It always comes back

00:04:17.800 to these fundamental things. Now, speaking of pregnancy, this might be even crazier than the bizarre

00:04:27.480 Satanist vandals. The FDA has just categorized pregnancy as an illness. So the FDA is rushing to give

00:04:42.840 approval to an abortion drug. Mifeprex. And in order to get the approval for Mifeprex, the FDA had to argue

00:04:51.900 that the drug treats a life-threatening illness so they could fast-track the approval in the same way

00:04:57.600 that they fast-track the approval for drugs that treat cancer and HIV. What's the life-threatening

00:05:03.280 illness here? According to the FDA, it's pregnancy. It's life. It's just not an illness. It's not. 0.81

00:05:10.620 It's the center of society. It's the center of human life. It's a wonderful thing. It's not a sickness.

00:05:17.380 There was a South Park joke on this. I remember it years ago. I can't remember the exact episode,

00:05:21.380 but Mr. Garrison, the teacher, is teaching sex ed to the kids. And he's telling them all about

00:05:26.960 various STDs. He says, and you know, the worst, most dangerous STD of all is called pregnancy.

00:05:34.540 And that was a joke. And now that joke has become policy at the FDA. Because all of the things that

00:05:42.180 were jokes 20, 30 years ago on The Simpsons, on South Park, on Family Guy, all those jokes are now

00:05:48.920 just the society we're living in. Our society has become the joke, which would be funny if it weren't

00:05:55.760 so sad. If we didn't view life and procreation and the next generation of our families and countrymen

00:06:02.320 as a disease to be avoided and treated with the life-saving drug that ends life with a life-saving

00:06:10.820 drug, quote unquote, that kills people. Speaking of unaccountable agencies and sex,

00:06:17.720 the United Nations has made a troubling statement. This is the International Commission of Jurists,

00:06:27.800 with an assist from UNAIDS and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

00:06:32.400 It said, quote, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of

00:06:40.700 consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. Now, to translate,

00:06:47.720 all of that gobbledygook, what they're saying is, maybe it's okay to have sex with kids. 0.99

00:06:52.960 That's what that means. This is from a report titled, The Eight March Principles for a Human 0.95

00:06:58.200 Rights-Based Approach to Criminal Law Proscribing Conduct Associated with Sex, Reproduction, Drug Use,

00:07:03.780 HIV, Homelessness, and Poverty. I think of Oren McIntyre, the commentator who's come on this show before,

00:07:09.700 who has a meme that has gone viral. It's a meme, speaking of The Simpsons, of a bus driver on The

00:07:16.060 Simpsons, saying, don't make me tap the sign. And the sign is just a tweet from Mr. McIntyre saying,

00:07:21.260 it's not complicated. They just want to diddle kids. And I don't think that that's all of what 0.96

00:07:26.120 the sexual revolution is about. But going way, way back, going back to the 1960s, going back to those

00:07:31.320 weird essays by Bernie Sanders and the Vermont Freeman, in which he's writing about how awful it

00:07:37.540 is that we don't sexualize children. And going back to the bizarre sexual revolutions of even a little

00:07:44.380 before the 1960s, even back to the days of the leftist intellectual Wilhelm Reich, the idea of

00:07:50.900 orgones as being the essence of life and the way to cure poverty and cancer and war is to just have 0.66

00:07:58.740 a lot of orgasms. I'm not making that up. The way that the libs keep constantly trying to sexualize 1.00

00:08:03.700 kids in the schools, in the libraries, expose them to drag queens. There's a highly ideological 0.99

00:08:08.920 component about it. But also, Mr. McIntyre might happen to be right. So what does this

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00:09:20.900 K-N-A-W-L-E-S for 35% off your first preferred order. Why is the UN encouraging people to have sex with 0.63

00:09:28.660 kids? I didn't believe it when I saw this come across Twitter. I said, this is one of those fake news 0.77

00:09:32.840 articles where the conservatives, they, sometimes the conservatives are too quick to call people

00:09:38.280 pedos in the same way that the Democrats are too quick to call people racist. But sometimes they're

00:09:44.040 not too quick. Sometimes they just, they're just calling it like they see it. And so I look it up

00:09:47.420 and it's being reported in the news. The UN saying, well, maybe sometimes sex with kids is okay. In fact, 0.62

00:09:55.820 if not in law. Okay. What's really going on here? What you're seeing play out is a battle that I've

00:10:03.740 mentioned on the show before between two views of the law, two views of politics broadly. The

00:10:11.220 traditional conservative view is that mankind is a unity of body and soul, of course, but our defining

00:10:19.040 feature is intellect and will. We have an intellect such that we can reason about things. We can come

00:10:26.740 to certain true conclusions. We can ascertain objective truth and our will that we can act

00:10:33.020 upon our desires in the world. And when society is going well, when our personal lives are going well,

00:10:38.960 our will and our intellect are in accord with one another. So we're not just being drawn on the

00:10:44.340 gusts of our base passions and our appetites and our lower will. But we are using our reason

00:10:51.300 to figure out how we're supposed to behave. So you say, okay, I've had three cookies. I'm not going

00:10:55.640 to grab the fourth cookie from the cookie jar, even though my appetite wants it. I am going to

00:11:00.160 have a tummy ache. So I'm not going to do that. Intellect and will working together. The left severs

00:11:06.400 those two things. So the left says, yeah, maybe the baby's a baby, but I want to kill the baby 1.00

00:11:12.660 because the baby's inconvenient for me. So I'm going to ignore my intellect. I'm going to pursue 0.99

00:11:16.580 a politics of pure will. Yeah, obviously a dude in a dress is not actually a chick. We all know that 1.00

00:11:22.020 people, we're not even going to try to make the argument that the man is really a woman.

00:11:26.720 We're just going to go into the ladies room and we're going to follow our will. Intellect be damned. 1.00

00:11:32.040 And you see this time and time again. This is why the conservatives engage in civil discourse and

00:11:36.380 they have all sorts of debate and they're very, very polite. Even the liberal kinds of

00:11:40.600 conservatives tend to be fairly polite. We saw this at the debate last night. Whereas the leftists

00:11:44.820 pull out of the debate and they shriek and they set off smoke bombs outside and they burn me in

00:11:48.300 effigy and they yell and they scream when Donald Trump gets elected. They don't, they don't explain

00:11:52.540 why this is not the best outcome for the country. What do they do? They pull their hair out and they

00:11:57.060 go, no, and they shriek like banshees. That is a politics of pure will. And that's what you're

00:12:05.140 seeing with a lot of the weird kid stuff. Okay. There's no way to make a good argument that we

00:12:09.240 should further sexualize little children. There's no way to make a good argument that drag queens 1.00

00:12:13.500 should be permitted to twerk in the elementary schools or that we should pump little kids full

00:12:16.880 of cross-sex hormones. So the libs are pushing for this for various reasons, some ideological and

00:12:24.520 some I fear a little more libidinous, some a little bit more licentious. But it doesn't matter

00:12:32.060 to them. Intellect be damned. They're going to do what they want to do. You actually see this in the 0.89

00:12:37.960 the infamous pornographer philosopher, Marquis de Sade. Marquis de Sade from whom we get the

00:12:44.080 word sadism and sadistic. The Marquis de Sade, who's a very intelligent guy, says, if there is no God,

00:12:53.000 if there's, if there's no real virtue or vice, if there's no, it doesn't matter if I'm not going to

00:12:58.240 acknowledge the moral reality, then why is your pain any more important than my pleasure? Why can't I

00:13:04.640 just do whatever the hell I want? And this is why his pornography philosophy is so interesting

00:13:10.640 because it's both of those things. The most famous one is 120 Days of Sodom, which starts out as a kind

00:13:16.920 of titillating licentious book and quickly becomes full of torture and the infliction of pain, murder,

00:13:26.020 and all sorts of evil things. Because why not? Why not? If we're denying the intellect, if we're denying

00:13:31.240 reason, if we're only pursuing the will, why not follow the will wherever it wants to go?

00:13:35.420 Speaking of the sexual revolution, big news out. According to an article making it around the

00:13:42.300 internet, who knows if it's true? I assume most scientific articles are complete bunk.

00:13:47.320 Dr. Fauci really diminished my respect for the science. But according to this news report,

00:13:54.480 male contraception could be getting closer and closer thanks to a new genetic discovery. It's 0.77

00:14:02.200 been a long road, but new findings could bring us one step closer to an elusive birth control pill

00:14:09.340 for men. My question, in what world is this good?

00:14:17.660 What is good about this? We've got a dying population. We've got plummeting rates of marriage. 0.88

00:14:31.880 We have a hookup culture that is so perverse that it spurred a Me Too movement because we no longer

00:14:41.100 know how to speak about sexual propriety. And so everything has to be either totally wonderful,

00:14:46.940 hunky-dory or rape. That's how confused people are now about sex. 0.61

00:14:54.240 Abortion is prevalent. Women are being left high and dry. In what world is this good? 1.00

00:15:02.620 It would seem to me that if we want to save our civilization, we need significantly less birth

00:15:06.860 control. We need more conception and much less contraception. But even if we live in a world that's

00:15:12.580 going to tolerate contraception because the Supreme Court invented a right to contraception twice in

00:15:16.780 1965 and in 1972, they found an invisible ink in the constitution that the right to condoms or

00:15:22.620 whatever. As contraception exists today, women can take a pill, they can put a patch on, it pumps them 1.00

00:15:29.860 full of hormones. Probably not great in the long run, but they can do that. They're in control here.

00:15:34.140 Or people can use condoms. In what world is this good to not only introduce a new type of

00:15:40.960 contraception, but have that contraception be totally within the domain of men? So men have the power now 0.98

00:15:47.020 over contraception. Doesn't that seem, wouldn't that seem by every measure, by the conservative measure,

00:15:54.040 by the liberal measure, by the feminist measure, wouldn't that seem counterproductive? It would to me.

00:16:00.100 There's no coherence. There's no logic. But it gets to what we were talking about at that abortion

00:16:04.640 activism group that went out and vandalized the pro-life center. These things don't have to make

00:16:10.360 sense. It gets to what we're talking about with the intellect. These things don't have to make sense.

00:16:15.480 The left has a goal in mind. And they will pursue that goal. And they'll change the arguments

00:16:20.360 all the way. The left wants to destroy marriage. And so they're going to destroy marriage by making an

00:16:25.700 argument for gay rights. And they're going to say, well, there's two sexes and people are born this

00:16:30.680 way and your sexual orientation is totally immutable. And so we've got to redefine marriage 0.80

00:16:34.660 to include same-sex unions, monogamous unions. Okay. But also everything about sex is fluid and men

00:16:43.200 and women don't really exist and transgenderism is true. And that's the reason we've got to attack 1.00

00:16:46.160 marriage. Hold on. Weren't you just making this other argument? Yeah, whatever. Don't. Who cares?

00:16:50.480 We've got up in traditional norms of society because women are so important that we're going to have a 1.00

00:16:55.400 feminist culture. But actually, no, now we're going to go into a gender thing and we're going to deny 0.98

00:16:59.720 that women exist. We're going to rewrite all the civil rights laws and protections for women. 1.00

00:17:03.860 But yeah, whatever. The result's going to be the same, which is we're going to upend our traditional

00:17:08.820 culture. Doing the same thing here. Now, speaking of that revolution, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is

00:17:17.240 being protested by lots of shrieking leftists. I think you're seeing a theme here. And some of

00:17:25.380 the phrases they're yelling are, we say gay and DC don't like fascists. 1.00

00:17:31.620 We say gay! We don't like it! Go away! We say gay! We say gay! We don't like it! Go away! 1.00

00:17:46.760 Okay, nothing particularly interesting about this demonstration. We've heard this a zillion times

00:17:56.520 before. Last night, when we were trying to begin our debate at Pitt, a handful of students stood

00:18:01.760 up, the ones who made it into the venue, stood up and just started screaming, trans lives matter,

00:18:05.240 trans lives matter. These people only know like 14 words or something. So they just, it's maybe, 1.00

00:18:11.260 let's see, 14 words would be like two or three phrases. That's not fair. Maybe they've got

00:18:15.800 three or four phrases. Let's bump it up to 21, 22 words, but that's it. You're a fascist. Hate is

00:18:22.660 not welcome here. Trans lives matter. That's not particularly interesting. What's interesting 1.00

00:18:27.760 though for the DeSantis campaign is that he is getting these protests at all. This is really

00:18:31.900 great news for him. The biggest weakness of the DeSantis campaign right now is that Trump's taken

00:18:36.380 all the fire and DeSantis, by virtue of just not being Donald Trump, is getting more support from

00:18:41.760 more establishment type figures. Not Ron DeSantis' fault. That's just the way it's shaken out because

00:18:46.560 he's the not Trump guy in the race. So the more protests he gets, the more attacks that he gets,

00:18:51.620 the better off he is going to be. This election, as I've said now for some time, is going to be

00:18:57.480 an opposition election. We are going to judge the candidates by their enemies. When Donald Trump

00:19:04.720 launches his reelection bid by saying, I am your retribution, that tells you what the tone of this

00:19:11.320 campaign is going to be. And fair enough. These are the people who are vandalizing the pro-life

00:19:15.880 centers, who are setting off explosives and burning conservatives in effigy simply for having a

00:19:22.480 debate over the role of the law when it comes to transgenderism. These are the people who burned 1.00

00:19:27.200 our country down for eight months during the BLM riots. These are the people who locked our country 1.00

00:19:30.480 down and kept pushing to keep our country locked down. This is a politics that is increasingly

00:19:35.520 unreasonable. And so we're not going to have a positive, edifying, productive campaign about

00:19:42.520 how we can build upon some of them, meet in the middle and take the best points from the other

00:19:47.540 side. No, this is an opposition campaign. The libs have completely lost it. They're burning the

00:19:52.020 country down. Whoever the libs hate the most, that's going to be my guy. That's going to be a good sign

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00:21:14.820 Speaking of politicians and re-election, George Santos.

00:21:17.380 One of the more eccentric Republicans out there, George Santos, who lied about his educational background

00:21:23.600 and his professional background and may have been indicted in Brazil and he's got a lot of, maybe lied about

00:21:28.540 his sexual identity and maybe his religion. I don't know, whatever. He, actually the religion point in

00:21:35.800 George Santos' defense is, has been misinterpreted by the media because George Santos said that he is

00:21:43.120 Jew-ish, which is a little bit of a joke saying he's ethnically Jewish, but not practicing Jew. And so

00:21:48.980 whether or not he is actually ethnically Jewish, that is a real concept. That's the, there are plenty

00:21:53.380 of things to attack George Santos for, but that line is not one of them. Well, George Santos, despite all

00:21:58.140 of these setbacks, he is running for re-election. According to entrepreneur Josh Eisen, who is a top

00:22:07.500 Santos donor, said many of us Americans are willing to accept all sorts of resurrection. Perhaps

00:22:13.760 representative George Santos will be another. So even with all of this crazy stuff that came out

00:22:18.580 about Santos, some people are still backing him. And then the Democrats are looking at us and they're

00:22:25.500 saying, look at you awful conservatives. You have no principles at all. You have no standards

00:22:30.560 whatsoever. How can you defend this guy? My question is, what's the alternative?

00:22:38.900 Do you have an alternative guy who's going to win that district in New York and help preserve the

00:22:43.960 Republicans' razor-thin majority in the House? Do you have somebody else? Do you have proof that George

00:22:49.400 Santos is significantly more disreputable than many other members of Congress and the Senate,

00:22:57.180 disproportionately Democrats? He lied about his background. Did he lie about being a Native 1.00

00:23:04.000 American when he was the whitest person in the world to get a job on the Harvard faculty?

00:23:08.280 Did he lie for his whole career about that? No, he didn't. Did he lie about his educational

00:23:12.280 background? Did he lie about, well, pretty much everything when we're talking about Joe Biden?

00:23:16.100 Did he do that? Did he, oh, he's sexually a bit odd? Really? Okay, compare that to any Democrat

00:23:24.120 these days. Did he go twerk in elementary schools and libraries? Because that's the new standard I'm

00:23:29.900 seeing set by the left. What's the alternative? We're supposed to say, no, you, listen, you,

00:23:35.360 you're a dishonest politician. So we're going to kick you out and install another dishonest Democrat 0.99

00:23:40.560 who's going to vote for killing babies and giving away America's political rights and opening up the 1.00

00:23:47.960 border. And no, I don't think so. What's the alternative? Show me the alternative. I don't see it. 0.80

00:23:52.980 Speaking of celebrities, Shaq has an important message for everybody, especially for people in

00:24:01.380 the media, and that is don't call him a celebrity. I really love this story. I meant to get to it a

00:24:06.120 couple of days ago. Glad we can get to it now. Shaq is a very, very famous figure in sports, in media,

00:24:14.580 in commentary. And Shaq just told People Magazine that he doesn't want to be a celebrity because

00:24:19.780 celebrities are rude to people and obnoxious. He said, I denounced myself for being a celebrity 30

00:24:24.140 years ago because a lot of celebrities are a-holes. I don't want to be in that category. I'd rather 0.99

00:24:29.520 demote myself to just being a regular person before you call me a celebrity and put me in the category 0.92

00:24:34.260 of those jerk-offs. I don't, I think I can say that on the air, right? That seems relatively wholesome 0.88

00:24:39.700 by our modern cultural standards. I don't like to work with celebrities because celebrities are crazy. 0.99

00:24:44.640 So I just like to work with people. And he says, celebrities are crazy. They really are. Don't 0.99

00:24:50.400 call me that anymore. These people are out of their freaking mind with how they treat people, 0.99

00:24:54.060 what they do, what they say. That's never been me. I never want to be looked at like that. So some 0.97

00:24:59.400 people are going to look at this and say, oh, that's just false humility from Shaq. You're obviously

00:25:03.460 a celebrity. You're super rich. You're super famous. He's not saying that he's not rich and famous.

00:25:07.300 He's just rightly observing that celebrities often have all sorts of problems and look ridiculous. 0.97

00:25:16.480 So when he says, oh, don't call me a celebrity. I just want to be a regular person. He's not even 0.97

00:25:20.760 saying that for you or for me or for anybody else. He's calling for that as a matter of self-preservation.

00:25:31.120 And you see this throughout the ages. People get really dazzled by celebrity. People can become

00:25:37.300 starstruck. But think about celebrities of ages past. Celebrity fades in a second. People who were

00:25:44.140 super famous, admired, all we could talk about even five, 10 years ago, they're forgotten. And then they

00:25:50.080 what? They become washed up. They become a punchline. And very often they're self-obsessed. Very often they

00:25:56.660 are rude to people. Very often they are crazy. It's not even totally their fault. Celebrity is a weird 0.99

00:26:00.620 thing. If you've ever known a famous person and having lived in LA and being around politics,

00:26:06.400 I've met a disproportionate number of famous people. They can go crazy. It's a very strange thing

00:26:12.260 to have everybody admire you at once and come up to you and recognize you and treat you well and pick

00:26:17.960 up the tab. If you don't protect yourself, that can really, that can really warp your mind and your

00:26:23.320 perception. And some of the famous people I've known have protected themselves better than others

00:26:27.280 against it. So what Shaq is saying is, no, ultimately, celebrity doesn't mean anything.

00:26:33.880 It's an illusion. And it's a deception. Don't fall for it. And it's so true. And it's a lesson for all

00:26:41.160 of us in this age because we're in an age where everybody can have their 15 minutes of fame because

00:26:45.780 anybody can go viral on TikTok. And so it's a, it's a lesson for us. We've democratized celebrity now

00:26:52.880 and the success of this world can be very damaging to people's souls. It's a great bit of self-help

00:27:02.120 from Shaq. That is not false modesty. I think that is looking at the world with a steely eye because if

00:27:07.860 you or I have met a few famous people, think about all the famous ones Shaq knows. The man knows of what

00:27:12.160 he speaks. Speaking of idol worship, did you know paganism is coming back? Good piece here in 0.99

00:27:19.180 Commentary Magazine on the return of paganism. A spiritual crisis afflicting contemporary America

00:27:24.540 has ancient and enduring roots and so does the cure. I actually haven't had time even to go through

00:27:30.540 the entire piece, but it makes it a really important point, which is paganism is coming back.

00:27:36.920 The paganism that you don't really notice where you just start to worship money and you start to

00:27:43.760 worship sex and you start to worship all the created things of this world's celebrity and you 0.65

00:27:49.200 don't really notice it. Also overt paganism is coming back. Also steeped in tradition kind of 0.98

00:27:56.160 paganism, nature worship, polytheism, that is coming back in a pretty conscious way as well. And the reason

00:28:03.120 for this is that we've kicked Christianity out of the public square. And this has happened not only 0.93

00:28:09.180 because of the faithlessness of the members in the church, but also because leftist activists have

00:28:16.800 booted it out using the law, using political activism from the public square. So when you don't

00:28:21.440 let kids learn the Bible in schools, when you don't let people pray in schools, when you instead, 0.97

00:28:26.000 when you replace the Bible with pornography in schools, as we're seeing today, that's going to change

00:28:30.060 people's formation. So everybody's got to serve somebody. But there's a priest who said that when

00:28:40.780 he was in seminary, he was told by one of his teachers that if he should ever leave Christianity,

00:28:47.220 he should become a pagan. And this wasn't just a cheeky line. The reason for this is paganism is at the

00:28:53.600 very least tied to nature. And so I'm not advocating that anyone become a pagan. But it's got some

00:29:02.040 connection to reality. And I think a part of the rise of paganism, conscious and unconscious,

00:29:08.680 is that we are living in a virtual world that is now imbued with, that has been pervaded with this

00:29:16.320 silly ideology that tells us the things that we know to be true are not true. That a man is not really

00:29:23.320 a man, he's a woman. That a baby is not really a baby. It's a clump of cells or whatever. We're living 1.00

00:29:27.580 in a world where these ideologies can succeed because we're so divorced from the real world. We live in

00:29:33.160 these little cubes and we insulate ourselves from nature and we even insulate ourselves from our own

00:29:40.380 bodies. We can alienate ourselves from our own bodies through virtual reality, through social media,

00:29:45.900 through the internet. And so there is an appeal, I think, to get back to something tangible,

00:29:52.480 something old, something sturdy. Now ultimately that won't be enduring because even the physical

00:29:57.980 world, even nature will pass away. It seems a lot sturdier than the fantasy virtual world that many

00:30:04.760 people are living in now. But even this created world will pass away. So when you are looking for

00:30:09.340 something, when you're trying to fill the God-shaped hole in your heart, when you recognize that

00:30:14.080 everybody's got to serve somebody, you've got to go past that. Follow that desire that has led you to

00:30:19.940 the kind of new paganism that's cropping up everywhere. But take it to the place that is

00:30:23.780 enduring. Take it to the source that is outside of this finite world. Take it to him who will not

00:30:32.200 pass away. If you're looking for something interesting to watch, check out our series,

00:30:37.720 What We Saw, hosted by storyteller Bill Whittle. Season one is focused on Apollo 11. Now season two of

00:30:42.500 What We Saw is in full swing. This time Bill has set his sights on the Cold War and the tension between

00:30:47.200 two superpowers that lasted for 45 years. Episode six picks up with Dwight David Eisenhower's rise

00:30:53.360 to popularity after World War II, his reluctance to become president, and his unexpected anti-military

00:30:59.320 and anti-war stance once he took office, which surprised a lot of people. Bill makes you feel

00:31:04.220 like you were there witnessing history. New episodes of the Cold War have come out every week, but you've

00:31:09.740 got to be a member to see it. Go to dailywire.com slash coldwar to start watching. My favorite comment

00:31:15.860 yesterday is from Nat Palazzo, who says they need to do a game show where you get paid a million

00:31:23.520 dollars to walk through Chicago for 24 hours. A bit like The Running Man. That's a good idea and

00:31:29.160 great for the producers because they'll never have to pay it out because you don't, unless they'll have

00:31:33.400 to pay it to the estate of whoever takes up that challenge. Okay, can we now get to the story that

00:31:38.700 really matters? Enough about what's going on in the elections and in our philosophy and in our schools

00:31:46.560 and no, we've got to get to what really matters. You know, Dylan Mulvaney. Dylan Mulvaney, the face of

00:31:53.860 transgenderism. We didn't do this. Conservatives, we talk about him, but the libs picked this guy. The 0.60

00:31:58.400 libs made this guy their spokesman. Conservatives didn't put him on the Bud Light can. Well,

00:32:03.640 Dylan Mulvaney has teamed up with another transgender, transgender identifying activist,

00:32:10.180 Jeffrey Marsh. So he's now teamed up with Dylan Mulvaney. I have not watched this whole thing.

00:32:16.560 Gents, take it away. Do you have any relationship to the concept of girlhood?

00:32:21.800 I absolutely do. I find girlhood to be inspiring. There are a lot of human beings who are girls

00:32:28.760 who transcend what their gender is supposed to be. Yes. And that to me is something I draw strength

00:32:35.080 from and excitement from. Absolutely. And I hope this is the start of a lifelong friendship.

00:32:42.240 What do you think, people? I love you all. Okay. Oh, we got to do my signature. Okay.

00:32:47.720 Thanks. Okay. Okay. Ready? Love ya! Bye!

00:32:57.320 Two men describing their intimate experiences of girlhood. A thing about which they know nothing.

00:33:09.280 It's so on the nose that you know this is just to troll us. And we've taken the bait. So there it is.

00:33:16.600 We always take the bait. But what's most interesting about this video is not the part that everyone's

00:33:22.940 talking about. Can you believe these two men are talking about girlhood? That's so ridiculous. How

00:33:26.300 crazy. And then we get the more views. Most interesting part about this video is this is

00:33:31.080 Dylan Mulvaney tipping his hand. Dylan Mulvaney has a meticulously crafted image as being just really

00:33:38.400 nice and fun. He's just a really nice, fun guy. And all these, why are all these conservatives

00:33:43.020 being so mean to me? Then he puts on a Broadway show, Rockefeller Center show, where he's just

00:33:48.460 sitting there and he performs this crying routine where he says, well, everyone's so mean to me,

00:33:53.020 but I just want to be my true self. And he assiduously has crafted this character of someone who's just

00:34:00.720 so innocent and vulnerable. And he's not hurting anybody. And he just wants to just be his true

00:34:06.140 self. And it just doesn't. And he takes away all of the references to the really darker sides of

00:34:13.480 transgenderism. But then he does this video with Jeffrey Marsh, whose character is an enactment 0.87

00:34:20.780 exclusively of the dark sides of transgenderism, of the wrath that is associated with this kind of 1.00

00:34:27.900 movement. We saw some of that wrath last night at my speech, or at my debate, rather, at the University

00:34:32.980 of Pittsburgh. We see the embodiment of licentiousness because the transgender identity 1.00

00:34:39.700 is driven largely historically by a sexual fetish. And there's excellent work that's been done on this

00:34:47.020 by Dr. Ray Blanchard and on the subject of what is called autogynephilia. Maybe we'll talk more about

00:34:52.220 that in the future. But Jeffrey Marsh embodies that when he says, hey kids, let's talk to me about sex. 0.64

00:34:57.940 The bizarre fascination with children that we've seen from the transgender movement, insisting 1.00

00:35:02.500 on pushing these ideas into lower and lower grades, into elementary schools, into the libraries,

00:35:07.600 and bringing kids to the drag shows. Jeffrey Marsh has almost perfectly crafted a character

00:35:15.020 that only focuses on the really, really darkest aspects of transgenderism. And then Dylan Mulvaney 1.00

00:35:22.540 does a video with him, which to me is a tipping of the hand. It's a little wink to say, yeah, look,

00:35:27.920 I'm the face of transgenderism, of all of transgenderism. And I know I play this character,

00:35:35.540 this character that I've created. I have a long take on what I think is motivating a lot of Dylan

00:35:41.460 Mulvaney's performances. You can find that on my YouTube channel. But it's that little wink to say,

00:35:46.220 but I know about the dark stuff too. Don't think that just because I do my Audrey Hepburn routine,

00:35:51.400 I know about the dark stuff too. I support that too. Love you, Jeffrey Marsh. See you later.

00:35:59.180 Now, we need a palate cleanser. I need a palate cleanser for Jeffrey Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney. So

00:36:06.380 let's turn away from two men who are wreaking a lot of havoc and damage in our culture. Let's turn

00:36:13.140 to two men who are doing a lot of great stuff in our culture. That would be Tucker and Elon Musk,

00:36:18.080 both of whom have gotten in trouble for this exchange they just had in an interview about

00:36:25.720 layoffs at Twitter. What percentage of your staff did you fire at Twitter? One of the great business

00:36:31.560 stories of the year. I think we're about 20% of the original size. So 80% left? Yes. So...

00:36:40.400 A lot of people voluntarily... Sure, sure. But it's... 80% are gone from the day you took over. That's

00:36:46.600 correct, yes. So how do you run the company with only 20% of the staff? It turns out you don't

00:36:52.340 need all that many people to run Twitter. But 80%? That's a lot. Yes. I mean, if you're not

00:37:00.940 trying to run some sort of glorified activist organization and you don't care that much about

00:37:08.560 censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people, turns out.

00:37:15.300 And Tucker laughs and Elon is grinning. They say, yeah, we fired or allowed to quit and retire

00:37:24.800 80% of the company. It's just a feed. It's basically like a group text. Twitter is not that complicated.

00:37:32.520 Elon Musk is a guy who builds rockets, who builds very advanced and expensive cars.

00:37:38.680 Twitter doesn't need that kind of manpower unless you're building an activist organization.

00:37:44.240 You see this kind of bloat in the universities. Universities are not teaching any better than

00:37:49.200 they have in the past. They're teaching much worse, actually, than they have in the past.

00:37:52.760 The tuitions are going up in large part not because the universities are hiring more professors

00:37:57.220 or even updating their facilities. It's because they're hiring all of these political activists

00:38:03.100 to serve as deans and deputy deans and deputy vice assistant vice deputy deans of diversity,

00:38:08.800 equity, and inclusion, which is an activist position to insist upon leftist ideology in the

00:38:15.560 classroom and in all of campus life. That's what's bloating the payrolls of the universities. 0.57

00:38:20.140 And that's what was happening at Twitter. Elon Musk was not firing the guys who fixed the code.

00:38:27.220 The kinds of people who left when Elon Musk took over and the kinds of people that Elon Musk fired

00:38:31.740 were the political apparatchiks who were figuring out how to boot Donald Trump off of the platform,

00:38:37.700 who were figuring out how to censor conservatives, shadow ban conservatives,

00:38:41.460 ban them entirely. Those were the people. And so Tucker and Elon are in trouble here because

00:38:47.480 they're laughing at people losing their jobs. And the libs are saying, how dare you? Do you not have

00:38:51.120 any compassion? These people, they have families. First of all, I think many of them probably don't

00:38:55.120 have families. I think a lot of them are probably just single millennials and Zoomers whose only 1.00

00:39:01.380 raison d'etre in their own minds is to attack conservatives. But they'll say, how dare you

00:39:07.700 laugh when someone loses their job? I'm sympathetic to that take. But the stakes are very high here.

00:39:16.500 These are not, this is not just a private company. This is not even just a kind of involved in

00:39:21.860 politics kind of company. We're talking about a company that is one of three companies that

00:39:26.320 determines speech in the public square. And because we live in a republic, that means this is one of

00:39:32.600 three companies that decides on what the political order is going to look like. 80% of Twitter employees

00:39:41.580 losing their jobs, that's a lot more like a bad president losing re-election than it is like your

00:39:49.480 neighbor losing his job. When your neighbor loses his job, even if you don't really like your

00:39:54.580 neighbor, that's a sad thing. When the bad guy loses the presidential election, that's a very good

00:40:00.660 thing. That's something that you work for because that's going to affect your life. That's political.

00:40:04.620 That's going to affect your whole society. Working at Twitter is a political job. And conservatives need 0.72

00:40:14.400 to get a lot tougher about making sure the people who want to suppress us are not allowed to wield power

00:40:22.860 in politics. Great stuff from Elon and Tucker. Before we go, I do want to get to a woman who is

00:40:31.060 identifying as a cat. Take it away. My name is Lindsey Graham and I am a cat. Meow, meow. I'm not a woman

00:40:38.620 dressed as a cat. I am a cat. By show of hands, I'm curious, how many of you believe and confess

00:40:43.720 that I'm a cat? No one. You are right. Why? Because you are not stupid and these children

00:40:50.180 are not stupid. One look at me and you know this to be true. I am a woman posing as a cat. 1.00

00:40:56.100 You may also think correctly that if I truly believe I'm a cat, I have a mental disorder.

00:41:00.900 If I suffer from a mental disorder and if I'm unable to discern reality, am I safe to be around

00:41:05.980 children? Would you put me in charge of making critical decisions about the safety and well-being

00:41:10.920 of children and about the direction of their education? But I cannot even discern truth from

00:41:16.040 fiction. No tail, whiskers or outfit makes me a cat. Just like no lipstick, high heels or long hair

00:41:22.960 makes him a woman. If you were to address me as a cat right now, it's as ridiculous as when you say 1.00

00:41:29.880 Miss Bixler and a grown man's voice comes thundering. It is. It is. She's exactly right. 0.99

00:41:38.520 And this is not some completely crazy example, by the way. This happened in real life. Her

00:41:44.800 identification as a cat was a pretty well-documented phenomenon of a character who called himself

00:41:54.080 Stalking Cat. This was about 20 years ago and he was a deeply troubled man who felt that he was in some

00:41:59.560 deep sense, really a cat. I think he was involved in the furry community and he had lived with some

00:42:05.640 furries. But Stalking Cat had all of these body modifications to look more and more like a cat.

00:42:11.880 He ultimately sadly killed himself because he had all of these mental problems and he was living out 0.98

00:42:16.480 of accord with reality. Why is this a bad example? If we point to something like body integrity disorder,

00:42:24.220 which is a disorder that very much like transgenderism can begin at early ages, can set in 0.96

00:42:30.380 around age 8 to age 12. It's a defect of perception that says that someone with healthy limbs actually

00:42:38.360 shouldn't have those limbs. So someone wants to cut off a perfectly healthy leg and become an amputee

00:42:43.740 because that will make them feel more like their true self. Like transgenderism, this is often but not 0.98

00:42:49.480 always associated with sexual arousal. And like transgenderism, this is an expression of someone's 0.99

00:42:56.200 subjective identity that is not tied to reality. Like transgenderism, there are some studies that say

00:43:01.900 that actually the brains of people with this disorder are a little bit different than people

00:43:05.760 who don't have this. It's almost a one-to-one analogy. Do we think that a doctor should cut off the

00:43:15.120 healthy leg of someone who has this failure of perception? No, of course not. Do we think that

00:43:22.580 that woman is a cat? No, of course not. Do we think that stalking cat was a cat? No, of course not. Do we

00:43:28.280 think that it's good for any of these people to pretend that they are amputees or to pretend that

00:43:34.820 they are cats and to change their body to go in accord with that? No, nobody really believes that.

00:43:40.600 It's a very good analogy that the libs don't want us to look at. They say, that's ridiculous. It's not 0.94

00:43:46.880 ridiculous. It's happened. And there is a much broader application of this principle in society

00:43:53.840 today. That's called transgenderism. Why is that woman not a cat, but Dylan Mulvaney is a woman? 1.00

00:43:59.740 Doesn't make sense. Okay, it's Woke Wednesday. Is it or is it Woke Thursday? What day is it,

00:44:04.860 Mr. Davies? Wednesday. It is Wednesday? What a week, man. It's Woke Wednesday. We've got a Woke TikTok.

00:44:10.600 This week just keeps on coming. This will be an explanation of why we should pump little kids 1.00

00:44:17.180 full of hormones. Thank you to Mr. Davies. The rest of the show continues. Now go to dailywire.com

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 19, 2023

Ep. 1228 - Trans-Activists Burn Images of Me At Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protest

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