The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1229 - Losing Weight Is Fatphobic... According To These People

00:00:00.000 We're now at the stage of the 2024 presidential race in which we expect two qualities of any new

00:00:06.420 candidate. One, that that candidate will be a Republican, and two, that that candidate will

00:00:12.440 be a fringe afterthought since the GOP field is now dominated by Trump and DeSantis. But what is

00:00:18.220 strange about the newest candidate in the race is that he is neither of those things. He's a Democrat

00:00:24.000 and he hails from the most prominent political family in Democrat politics, the son of a slain

00:00:29.880 former presidential candidate and the nephew of a slain former president, is running for president

00:00:35.840 himself. Here's why. This is what, this is what happens when you censor somebody for 18 years.

00:00:51.240 I got a lot to talk about.

00:00:53.120 They shouldn't have shut me up that long, because now I'm going to really let loose on

00:01:00.200 them. For the next 18 months, they're going to hear a lot from me.

00:01:06.660 What RFK Jr. is talking about is how the political establishment censored him for questioning the

00:01:12.880 safety of vaccines. And everybody, especially conservatives, used to make fun of him for it.

00:01:18.160 Until the past few years, when we've all seen firsthand the corruption of the medical

00:01:23.160 establishment, especially on vaccines. Now he doesn't seem quite so crazy. And the corruption

00:01:30.520 that RFK Jr. is taking aim at goes much deeper than just medicine. In his words, quote,

00:01:35.620 I've come here today to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United

00:01:41.520 States. My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be

00:01:46.460 to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind

00:01:53.920 of corporate feudalism on our country. All great points, but surprising. Surprising that this kind of

00:02:01.580 message might resonate. Especially surprising that it resonates with independents and Republicans,

00:02:07.880 who until just recently were the party of trusting the science and defending big corporations.

00:02:13.480 It's surprising how fast things can change, how parties can realign, how priorities can be upended,

00:02:22.780 and how the polls show that this eccentric Kennedy could pose an actual threat to Joe Biden.

00:02:30.440 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:32.060 Welcome back to the show. This episode is brought to you by my friends over at Good Ranchers. Free bacon,

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00:03:01.240 important medical advice coming later today. It's gone viral on TikTok, which says that losing weight

00:03:07.840 is fat phobic. You got to follow the science. You got to trust the experts. We'll get to that

00:03:11.620 in a second. First thought, I don't want to just totally gloss over RFK Jr. here. We have all spent

00:03:17.220 so much time kind of making jokes about RFK Jr. He has seemed outside the mainstream of American

00:03:27.880 political discourse until very recently. Now he's kind of a real guy. Maybe he always was a real guy,

00:03:35.080 and what was wrong was the prevailing consensus view. We'll find out in his campaign, I guess,

00:03:41.200 but according to the USA Today Suffolk poll, RFK Jr. might actually have a shot, at least at making

00:03:49.180 Joe Biden sweat. According to this poll, Joe Biden right now has only 67% support among Democrats

00:03:56.560 in the 2024 primary. Marianne Williamson, who's the new agey, dark psychic forces man

00:04:03.640 candidate in the race. She has 5%. RFK Jr. on his first day in the race has 14%.

00:04:12.120 That's pretty good. RFK Jr. is not one of these guys who's been quietly and steadily campaigning

00:04:19.800 for president for decades now. His candidacy kind of came out of left field, and he's already got

00:04:26.640 a pretty significant chunk of the Democrat primary base.

00:04:31.520 But what about the rest of the people? I'm no mathematician, but 67 plus 14 plus 5 does not equal

00:04:38.800 100. So that means there's a huge portion of Democrats, 33% of Democrats, who just don't like

00:04:43.780 Biden, who just like somebody else. Find me anybody without the name Biden, and I will vote for that

00:04:49.980 person. So it speaks to the weakness of Biden. It doesn't factor in Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom,

00:04:55.500 who clearly does want to run for president, he is currently campaigning for president,

00:04:59.320 but he has said he will not run if Joe Biden does. And Newsom is such an establishmentarian type

00:05:04.080 guy. He probably, probably would not run. Shows there's a lot of dissatisfaction here. And when

00:05:10.700 you've got a candidate with real Democrat bona fides, he's not a fake Democrat, a dino, 0.76

00:05:15.720 Democrat in name only. This guy's a real dem, and his family is the major family in Democrat politics.

00:05:23.140 And if this guy comes out and he runs, but he questions certain aspects of our corrupt political

00:05:27.760 establishment, aspects of it that are among the least popular, notably this merger of corporate power

00:05:34.260 with the prevailing ruling political order, that could be effective. RFK Jr. has so much working

00:05:42.520 against him. He even has that speech impediment where he kind of sounds a little bit like this

00:05:46.220 when he's campaigning. And even with that, on day one, you've got 14%, not a bad launch.

00:05:51.500 People are so sick, especially of the medical corruption. We're seeing more and more evidence

00:05:57.720 of that every day. Project Veritas has just published some undercover footage of a gender 0.98

00:06:04.060 clinic that is contradicting what we've been told by the liberal establishment. We've been told

00:06:09.620 that they're not really transing the kids. That's a right-wing conspiracy theory.

00:06:14.800 The only transitions that are occurring happen after 18. Well, that's not true. A multi-state

00:06:20.700 investigation here has exposed WPATH-connected transgender health doctors prescribing puberty

00:06:28.880 blockers to minors as young as eight years old and irreversible cross-sex hormones to minors as young 0.58

00:06:37.500 as 14. We do have patients who are starting as young as eight, nine. We have a list of gender-affirming

00:06:46.960 therapists that we can provide, too. So, like, pediatric trans care definitely exists.

00:06:53.080 They said it was transition or suicide. Like, I was given no choice. I was told you will kill

00:06:58.740 yourself if you don't go through with these treatments. It's very much pro-hormone, pro-changes.

00:07:05.300 If you don't do this, your child will kill themselves. That is the most common theme.

00:07:09.560 You don't think anybody can do that for a 10-year-old to do the surgery?

00:07:12.940 They could, yeah. I've never done a 10-year-old. To be quite fair with you, I've done 15, 16.

00:07:18.160 So, that's not an adolescent clinic. They started at age 10. She did say this about, like, surgery.

00:07:23.760 The way to go at this age, age 10, would be something like a puberty blocker. When you then

00:07:29.520 get to age 14 is what I'll consider some, you know, cross-gender hormones. 14 is a reasonable age. 0.98

00:07:37.560 Most kids are mature enough to make a relatively informed decision.

00:07:44.660 Project Veritas has these guys dead to right. And so, two takeaways. One, the trans activists are 0.99

00:07:51.840 lying, of course. Our liberal establishment is lying, of course. They are transing the kids. They're 1.00

00:07:57.560 putting these kids through very intense treatments at hideously young ages. Just completely

00:08:03.700 unacceptably young ages. Okay. We all knew that. My second takeaway from this is Project Veritas

00:08:09.860 might survive. You remember there was the big split with Project Veritas because they booted out

00:08:15.480 their founder, James O'Keefe. Now, James is doing his own thing, and I'm sure he'll be successful at

00:08:21.040 that. A lot of people said, okay, there's no point in Project Veritas anymore if they're going to lose

00:08:25.320 James O'Keefe. This is good work. And as someone who does not work for Project Veritas or does not

00:08:33.780 work for James O'Keefe for that matter, my only interest in this entire thing is, one, that everybody

00:08:39.920 play nice. We don't want to throw people who've done a lot of help for the conservative movement

00:08:44.840 just out the window. But two, the main thing I'm interested in is this investigative work. This is

00:08:50.920 very, very important work. And so if Project Veritas can keep the hits coming like that,

00:08:55.740 wonderful. That's great news. And then if James O'Keefe in his new venture can keep his hits coming

00:09:00.840 too, all the better. If we can just expose these people, that is what we are after here. That is the

00:09:06.720 end in sight. We know time and time again, we have seen the kind of corruption that they are

00:09:13.460 engaging in. Just put it on camera. Just expose it. That sunlight is a great disinfectant.

00:09:20.920 Speaking of the trans industry, Colorado has become the first trans tourism state.

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00:11:13.500 Colorado becomes the first transgender tourism state. And what does that mean in practice? It means that

00:11:20.560 in states around the country, it's now illegal to trans the kids. In states around the country, what Project

00:11:26.960 Veritas Uncovered is not legal anymore. And so certain states are saying, oh, if you're a young child

00:11:32.860 who's a little confused about your sex and gender, just come on over here. Yeah, come on over to Colorado

00:11:39.540 and we'll pump you full of hormones and set you on the path to chopping off your genitals. 1.00

00:11:45.420 Oh, you, hey, listen, parents, you can't abuse your children and sterilize them and chop up their bodies 1.00

00:11:52.560 in Tennessee. Well, come on over to Colorado. We'll do it for you over here. Absolutely.

00:12:00.320 And if you've got those mean old parents who won't do it, well, kids, hop on a greyhound. We'll take

00:12:05.180 care of you. I'm all for federalism. On certain issues, you need a national standard.

00:12:14.140 I think transgenderism, certainly transing the kids, but I think transgenderism broadly

00:12:20.700 is probably one of those issues where we need a national standard. I remember years ago when I was

00:12:26.260 a student, I got to meet Justice Antonin Scalia. And we asked Justice Scalia about same-sex marriage,

00:12:34.300 which was being discussed at the time. And we, sweet summer children, we were young conservative

00:12:42.080 students. We said, well, Mr. Justice Scalia, is it possible that we just, one state has

00:12:47.760 gay marriage and another state doesn't have gay marriage and we just allow the states to choose

00:12:53.760 their own way? And Scalia made an important point. Scalia, a defender of states' rights in so many

00:12:58.900 areas, said on certain issues, you kind of need a national standard. What does it mean if two men

00:13:05.880 go to a courthouse in Massachusetts and the judge says, okay, you are legally married,

00:13:11.260 but then those two men then travel to Tennessee and Tennessee says, two men can't get married to 0.95

00:13:17.620 each other. Marriage involves sexual difference. What are you guys talking about? Do they have the 0.98

00:13:22.120 rights of married people? Marriage is the fundamental political building block. How do you have a country 0.98

00:13:28.080 if you've got different, fundamentally different definitions of marriage in each state?

00:13:33.780 But what's more fundamental even than marriage? The definition of man and woman, because those

00:13:43.880 definitions are what build up marriage. What is a husband? What is a wife? So I just don't see

00:13:52.040 how we leave this issue to the states. Transing the kids, of course, because it's just so deeply 0.99

00:13:59.280 unjust. We just feel it in our very bones. But transgenderism broadly, how do you have a country 1.00

00:14:04.840 in which men and woman, man and woman means one thing in Colorado, but a different thing in Texas?

00:14:12.920 Then we really agree on nothing. We can have lots of diversity and variety across the states, but

00:14:18.920 if we're going to have a country at all, we have to agree on at least a few basic things. I don't see

00:14:24.780 how we avoid this. I don't see how the Supreme Court avoids weighing in on this sort of issue.

00:14:29.920 Now, unfortunately, the last time the Supreme Court weighed in on a fundamental matter, they upended

00:14:34.660 the tradition of all of human history and they denied reality when they redefined marriage.

00:14:44.340 And then later on, the Supreme Court, even with apparently conservative judges on it,

00:14:49.840 decided to redefine civil rights protections for sex as civil rights protections for gender

00:14:54.760 identity and sexual orientation. So I'm not exactly optimistic about what would happen if the

00:15:01.560 Supreme Court were to address this question today. But regardless, what else are we supposed to do?

00:15:08.580 Now we're going to live in a country where we can't even agree on what a man is and what a woman 0.96

00:15:13.840 is? That's not going to work. The libs, for their part, of course, are very much pushing a national 0.96

00:15:19.140 standard. The Biden administration has just been revealed to have sent an internal email. This is

00:15:26.300 from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, warning that transgender people face, quote,

00:15:34.520 increasing attacks. And this email came out just days after a transgender identifying shooter

00:15:42.940 targeted and shot up a Christian school and killed three little kids and three adults in that school.

00:15:50.800 Apparently motivated by this gender ideology, according to the police, but we don't know

00:15:55.200 for sure because the FBI won't show us the manifesto. Wonder why the FBI won't show us the manifesto.

00:16:00.880 Transgender identifying shooter, reportedly very likely motivated by the gender ideology, 0.94

00:16:10.660 shoots up poor little Christian kids in a school. And the Biden administration says the real victims 0.90

00:16:16.460 here, it's the trans people. It's always got to be whatever preferred group the libs have identified,

00:16:23.640 even when it is a member of that group committing the crime, that group still has to be the victim.

00:16:28.920 No shame whatsoever. There's a political lesson here for conservatives, which is we conservatives

00:16:36.920 are very moderate by our nature. And moderation is a virtue, so I'm all for moderation, but I'm not

00:16:41.520 for weakness and I'm not for naivete. Conservatives say, well, we can't push too hard on the transgender 0.87

00:16:48.120 issue. Let's just focus on if we should trans the seven-year-olds or wait until they turn eight. 0.82

00:16:53.140 Michael, when you say we need to eradicate the ideology of transgenderism from public life, 0.99

00:16:56.880 that's too extreme. It's going to turn people off. It's going to turn people off. Do you ever think

00:17:00.580 that the libs promising to chop off kids' genitals, don't you think that's extreme? Don't you think 0.99

00:17:06.100 that might turn people off? But the libs don't care about that. Don't you think that redefining 1.00

00:17:10.180 marriage, regardless of your views on marriage, don't you think fundamentally redefining the basic

00:17:15.200 building block of society might turn some people off? The libs don't worry about that. 1.00

00:17:19.560 Don't you think abolishing women's bathrooms and abolishing women's sports, 1.00

00:17:22.520 don't you think that might turn some people off? Even forget about these sexual issues for a second.

00:17:29.080 Don't you think sending $100 billion to Ukraine for a war that's not particularly popular in the

00:17:33.480 United States, don't you think that might turn people off? Don't you think, given what Americans 1.00

00:17:37.300 think about immigration, that insisting on taking in 3 million foreigners every year,

00:17:41.360 1 million legal immigrants and 2 million illegal immigrants, don't you think that's extreme and 0.98

00:17:44.740 might turn people off? The libs don't care. And it's because the libs understand that 1.00

00:17:49.240 while it might be difficult to get a law passed, to get a new rule established,

00:17:54.640 shortly thereafter, people just adjust to it. The law is like the air. The law is just something that

00:18:03.160 while it very much shapes and defines the way that we live, while it's part of our everyday existence,

00:18:13.880 people are not conscious of the law. We just, we fight, we argue, oh no, on the conservative side,

00:18:23.220 we overrule Roe v. Wade. And no, this is the biggest fight ever. It's such a huge fight that

00:18:27.500 liberals are going to try to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh. This is the biggest fight ever in

00:18:31.460 history. And then the Dobbs decision comes out and the law changes. And then most people just kind

00:18:37.320 of calm down about it. It's the water through which the fish swim. So the libs know, if you can just

00:18:43.340 change that law, if you can push through and hold tight and actually get the job done,

00:18:49.380 people will just adjust. That's what we need to do. We need to recognize, yeah, we're going to take a

00:18:54.200 little bit of a political hit right now. The liberal establishment is going to aim all of its fire at us. 0.99

00:18:58.580 But then once we succeed, that's it. It just unconsciously shapes people's lives. Now, speaking

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00:19:25.440 my religious group, this senator, when she was grilling Justice Barrett, when Justice Barrett was

00:19:31.080 first put up for one of the lower courts. She said, I don't know if we can pick you, Justice Amy Coney

00:19:36.220 Barrett, because you're Catholic and the dogma lives loudly within you. So I'm not under any

00:19:41.740 illusions about Senator Dianne Feinstein's wisdom or judgment, or now that she's so elderly,

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00:23:04.800 shipping. Limited time only, exclusions do apply. I am not in favor of Senator Dianne Feinstein

00:23:12.140 retiring. Because then what happens? I can't believe I've seen conservatives publish columns

00:23:19.220 on this, talk on this. Dianne Feinstein, she's almost 90. She's been home now. She's been home

00:23:24.940 since February. And she says it's because she's recovering from shingles. That may or may not be

00:23:31.420 the case. But she's pushing 90. She did temporarily, at least, give up her seat on the Senate Judiciary 1.00

00:23:36.580 Committee. But she remains in the Senate. Keep her there forever. Dianne Feinstein retires. Then what?

00:23:44.080 Then the Democrats in California appoint a much younger, more energetic, more capable Democrat to

00:23:55.040 take her place? No thanks. Dianne Feinstein is very liberal. But Dianne Feinstein is among the more 1.00

00:24:04.220 conservative California Democrats that are there. So what happens when she retires? The Democrats in

00:24:10.620 California appoint a certainly more radical, more leftist senator to replace her? No thanks. 1.00

00:24:18.660 I say we keep her there. One of the sad facts about our republic these days is it's not governed in the

00:24:26.880 way that one who had read the Constitution or watched Schoolhouse Rock with the bill up on Capitol Hill

00:24:32.160 might think that it is run. The government just kind of runs itself as a blob filled with bureaucrats

00:24:41.700 and all sorts of real legislating bodies like the federal agencies that have very little to do

00:24:48.360 with what the people want or with elections or with the Constitution or traditions for that matter.

00:24:55.040 So it just keeps keeping on. The Democrats, when they were so terrified that Donald Trump was going

00:25:00.960 to destroy the country, we all knew Trump would be a pretty good president. But they said, oh, no,

00:25:05.000 this is the end. Our country can't survive. And then what happened? The country did great.

00:25:08.540 The country did great in part because of Trump's leadership. But the country was able to maintain

00:25:13.240 its running in part because the president doesn't totally matter. That was one of the things that

00:25:22.080 undermined Trump's ability to govern, by the way. Same thing with the Senate. What does the Senate

00:25:27.160 really do? Not all that much. They do have some specific powers. So I want to make sure that the

00:25:33.780 people who are in the Senate are the most conservative people that we can get. But the idea

00:25:38.240 that, oh, no, we need someone who can respond urgently to any matter, that's not what the Senate does.

00:25:44.480 The Senate is the greatest deliberative body in the world. Most of what the Senate is even supposed to

00:25:49.120 do is just deliberate. You know, you don't need to be terribly energetic for that. Keep

00:25:54.300 Dianne Feinstein in her place. Speaking of dubious signs of life, this is my favorite news story all

00:26:01.900 week, maybe all month. You know, there's a debate raging at the Daily Wire. This debate is over the

00:26:12.620 existence of aliens. On the one side, on the incorrect side, you have Matt Walsh. You have

00:26:19.180 Matt Walsh and all the libs who believe in E.T., Little Green Men. It's very hard for me to see my

00:26:28.720 friend Matt, who is generally a wise person. His head is basically screwed on straight, and he's just

00:26:35.560 so wrong about this. And then on the other correct side of the debate, you have me and all of the

00:26:42.520 conservatives and the people with proper judgment who recognize that demons are totally, I'm sorry,

00:26:48.260 that aliens are totally fake. That was a slip because what people say are aliens are almost

00:26:52.920 certainly demons, though that's a secondary aspect of the debate, which we can get to later.

00:26:58.660 This news story today that's so important for this national conversation we're having

00:27:04.320 comes from Elon Musk, who happens to agree with me.

00:27:11.560 A lot of people ask me, you know, where are the aliens? And I think if anyone would know about

00:27:19.120 aliens on Earth, it would probably be me.

00:27:21.120 Yeah, I'm very familiar with space stuff. And I've seen no evidence of aliens. I'm not saying

00:27:29.920 that we are unique. I'm simply stating to the best of my knowledge that there is no evidence

00:27:33.340 for other conscious life. I hope there is, and I hope they're peaceful, obviously,

00:27:40.980 the two important characteristics. But I'm just saying we haven't seen anything yet.

00:27:46.600 So there's no evidence. I love this because Elon is right. If anybody on Earth would know about

00:27:56.340 aliens, it would be this guy. My only hesitation, actually, at celebrating that he's on my side of

00:28:04.300 the alien debate is that Elon Musk is so impressive and eccentric. Some have suggested he might be an

00:28:13.160 alien himself. And if he were an alien, then denying the existence of aliens is exactly the sort of

00:28:20.740 thing you would expect an alien to say. So that's my only little caveat here. But generally speaking,

00:28:25.740 I think that Elon Musk is a human being. I think he's very, very intelligent. I think he has a unique

00:28:32.260 expertise on outer space. And I'm glad that he agrees with yours truly on the matter of aliens.

00:28:38.380 The thing that gets me about the alien people is that, and I'm not talking about a hybrid of humans

00:28:46.300 and E.T. I'm talking about the people who really believe in aliens. They always go back to this

00:28:51.620 ridiculous argument. They say, well, the universe is so big, it's just probable that there are other

00:28:56.420 life forms out there. It's so big, it's just statistically probable that that isn't true.

00:29:02.740 That represents a fundamental misunderstanding of probability and statistics. Because in order to

00:29:10.280 know the probability, the statistical likelihood of something, we have to know something about the

00:29:16.300 thing that we're talking about. We have to know something about the thing whose likelihood we're

00:29:19.520 trying to predict. And when it comes to the origin of life, we don't. I mean, we do in the sense that

00:29:26.820 God created Adam and then out of his rib, he created Eve. I think that's probably the most

00:29:30.780 accurate description of how life begins that we can find. And I'm sure some dork scientist in a lab 0.87

00:29:35.920 coat is going to say, well, actually, it was seven zillion years ago. There was this interaction of 0.51

00:29:40.780 this chemical with this other chemical. And that may or may not have some scientific validity, but it's

00:29:45.880 just not a precise and accurate way to describe it. But furthermore, we don't have any working

00:29:51.180 scientific theory of the origin of life. We just, the scientists with the lab coats have no clue

00:29:56.440 whatsoever. So if you don't know even the basic aspect of the thing for which you're trying to

00:30:02.420 determine probability and statistical likelihood, then you've got nowhere to go. The universe could

00:30:07.820 be a thousand times larger than we estimate that it is. There is still not one shred of evidence.

00:30:16.580 There's not one single reason to believe that there is any additional life beyond our earth.

00:30:23.280 So, well, what do you, do you think that we're unique? Yeah, why not? There's a lot more evidence

00:30:29.060 that we're unique than evidence that we're not unique. Thank you, Elon. Thank you, Elon, for proving

00:30:33.360 my point. Speaking of aliens, we'll turn away from the aliens on Mars for a second and turn toward the

00:30:39.900 aliens in Guadalajara. President Trump has just announced that he will use the military to crush

00:30:46.360 the Mexican drug cartels. Fentanyl, heroin, meth, and other lethal drugs are pouring across our wide

00:30:54.640 open border, stealing hundreds of thousands of beautiful American lives. And it's happening

00:31:00.800 like never before in our history. Children are being left without parents. Families are being ripped

00:31:06.900 apart. Communities are being decimated. Our neighbors and fellow citizens are having their

00:31:13.640 entire worlds destroyed. Destroyed like nobody thought possible. Our country is being poisoned

00:31:21.280 from within by the drugs and by all of the other crime that's taking place. The drug cartels are

00:31:27.560 waging war in America. And it's now time for America to wage war on the cartels. In this war,

00:31:35.060 Joe Biden is cited against the United States and with the cartels. They are making more money than

00:31:41.520 they've ever made before times 10. President Trump goes on. He's been making a number of these

00:31:48.540 policy videos. It used to be that a campaign would release a 50-page paper on, here's my policy on this

00:31:55.220 or that. But we live in an age that is much more multimedia and we have far shorter attention spans now.

00:32:01.560 So I like these five-minute President Trump policy videos. What he highlights here is a correction to

00:32:09.640 the way that conservatives think about foreign policy. The way that foreign policy debates are

00:32:14.840 presented very often is a debate between interventionism and isolationism. And what's

00:32:23.020 curious about that representation is that it splits the conservatives. Because a lot of conservatives think,

00:32:29.760 why am I spending $100 billion potentially sending American troops into Ukraine and maybe throwing

00:32:36.540 us into World War III? Why would I do that? Let's just focus on our own borders. But then there are

00:32:40.660 other Republicans who will say, well, why are we letting some two-bit strongman push us around?

00:32:45.100 We're the United States of America. We are the world police and we're going to go in, maybe not build

00:32:49.500 nations, but we're going to go in and assert our strength and our interests. So which is it?

00:32:55.160 What's the conservative answer? Just looking at ourselves and being cowardly, that doesn't seem

00:33:02.220 conservative. But then going around and spreading some Wilsonian project of creating democracies

00:33:07.440 everywhere and raising the pride flag in Kandahar, that doesn't seem very conservative either.

00:33:11.240 The debate is not between isolation and intervention. The debate is over what kind of intervention are we

00:33:18.940 going to have? The idea that we're going to go spend a zillion dollars to raise a pride flag in Kabul

00:33:24.980 is crazy, especially when you consider that we're told we're not allowed to use our military force to stop

00:33:31.860 the actual invasion run by some of the worst criminal organizations on the face of the earth that's going

00:33:37.560 on at our southern border right now, which has a much more direct effect on our political order. The idea that

00:33:42.320 we're going to send hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and potentially some of our own young men

00:33:49.820 to go fight a war in Ukraine, a territorial dispute that's been going on for a long time, when we're not

00:33:55.140 going to take care of a territorial dispute on our own southern border, that seems crazy to a lot of people.

00:34:01.120 It's just as in the debate over free speech. The debate over free speech is not between free speech

00:34:05.240 on the one hand and censorship on the other. It's a debate over what standards, what taboos, what norms

00:34:09.800 are we going to have? The same thing is true here. Foreign policy debate is not a debate between

00:34:13.700 intervention and isolation. It's where are we going to intervene and for what purpose? You know, I've got a

00:34:19.120 new interview series. It's called Michael And, quickly becoming one of our most popular shows we've ever

00:34:24.060 done. In these interviews, we dive deep into a wide variety of topics with extraordinary people. For example, I

00:34:31.460 interviewed a former astrologist who struggled with thoughts of suicide and looked to the stars for answers. I

00:34:38.560 interviewed an exorcist, a priest, Father Dan Rehill, who detailed the frightening reality of possession as well as the

00:34:47.260 war raging in the supernatural world. This week, we released a new episode with Joshua Zatkoff, a former DMT and

00:34:55.200 magic mushroom user who came to realize that all that stuff was really terrible and became a Christian. What he told me

00:35:01.740 will shock you, check it out. When I started getting into DMT, where I was having encounters with light

00:35:07.280 beings. What did you think the light beings were? With acid and mushrooms, you don't typically, at least I

00:35:13.840 never had visuals. With the DMT, this was like full on, like you're seeing a whole world just crack open

00:35:20.820 in front of you. What would they tell you? These three beings come in my room and another one came in and

00:35:25.140 was dragging my body. And they told me, if you don't stop doing heroin, this is you.

00:35:37.420 This episode is available. The rest of the series is available now as well on the Michael Knowles

00:35:42.560 Show YouTube channel. Go check it out after this show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Karis

00:35:48.920 Stewart, who says, if, as the FDA contends, pregnancy is a disease, what is IVF? More disturbingly,

00:35:58.800 if pregnancy is a disease, could we soon see coercive sterilization campaigns in the name of public

00:36:03.960 health? Really great point, because the FDA, in order to fast track an abortion drug, they had to 0.94

00:36:09.360 claim that pregnancy is a life-threatening illness. In fact, it's the abortion drug that is life-threatening

00:36:14.160 because it kills people. You can't actually argue. Does anyone seriously argue that pregnancy is a 0.94

00:36:19.480 life-threatening illness or a disease? Well, if it is, then what about fertility treatments?

00:36:25.320 You're telling me that fertility treatments are also an important medical service? Fertility treatments 1.00

00:36:32.040 are just going to bring on this life-threatening disease. We got to ban all of those, right? And then,

00:36:38.080 to your point on the potential coercive sterilization, that did happen. Sterilization has happened in the

00:36:47.860 United States, but we're seeing now coercive sterilization of poor little kids who, by definition,

00:36:53.280 cannot consent and who are being sterilized and having their lives ruined by very wayward parents

00:37:01.060 and this insane ideology. But then you look around at India, you look at China, and there were direct

00:37:09.520 coercive sterilization campaigns that took place as a result of a book by an American, Paul Ehrlich's

00:37:15.840 Population Bomb, which warned that within a decade, this was in 1970, within a decade, we would have mass

00:37:22.520 famine because there were too many people on earth. It turned out to be complete bunk. Over the last 50

00:37:26.540 years, the world population doubled. Malnutrition fell to an all-time low. But these policies were

00:37:31.880 implemented in India, where if people wanted access to utilities, if people wanted access to basic

00:37:36.460 necessities, they would have to sterilize themselves. And in China, which had the one-child 0.98

00:37:41.340 policy, killed countless people over the years. Could it happen here? A lot of people said a lot of

00:37:50.320 things couldn't happen here. And look where we are. Closing down churches, our way of life for three

00:37:55.260 years. Redefining the basic aspects of society. Chopping off little kids' genitals. That couldn't 0.96

00:38:03.440 happen here. A lot of things are happening. Politics can change very, very fast. Okay, I want to get to

00:38:12.900 an important aspect of our public health and our specifically mental health arena. Not transgenderism. 1.00

00:38:23.160 I know everyone talks about transgenderism all the time. But this is more important. This is

00:38:27.060 fat phobia. This is trans slenderism, if you will. A mental health counselor has gone viral saying that

00:38:35.680 if you are fat and you lose weight, why you're fat phobic. Another great question. This person was

00:38:41.520 asking if there is any time in which intentional weight loss is not fat phobic.

00:38:49.700 I am going to say 99.9% of the times, if you are intentionally losing weight, it is fat phobic.

00:38:57.720 I am leaving that .01% in case I am truly, truly wrong. But I don't think I am. And here's the reason

00:39:09.820 why. I'm not saying if you exercise and happen to lose weight that that is fat phobic. I'm not saying

00:39:19.680 if you start a medication and you happen to lose weight, that is fat phobic. I am not saying that if

00:39:25.940 you're going through any type of illness and that is altering your body in some way, that that is

00:39:33.760 fat phobic. I'm saying when you are intentionally exercising to lose weight, altering your diet to

00:39:41.940 lose weight, doing any activity intentionally to lose weight is fat phobic. I still can't get over it.

00:39:51.700 If you take a pill and you go through a medical treatment that causes you to start wasting away,

00:39:56.300 I guess I won't blame you for that. I guess that's not totally your fault. But if you ever want to

00:40:01.880 lose weight so that you are less obese, so that you're healthier, why? That is fat phobic.

00:40:08.700 The irony is that the people who accuse others of phobia are always the ones denying rationality.

00:40:17.280 A phobia is supposed to be an irrational fear, but it's the ones who accuse people of a phobia.

00:40:22.560 They're the ones who deny rationality. I don't even just mean that they are unreasonable. They're

00:40:26.860 obviously unreasonable people. But I mean they deny even the possibility of rationality.

00:40:35.280 Because I can make a rational argument and say, well, when you're morbidly obese,

00:40:41.160 that can have all sorts of terrible effects on your health. And it also is spiritually disordered.

00:40:47.860 If you've got a problem with gluttony, you probably are going to want to address that problem.

00:40:51.620 And so in order to be physically healthier, to become more spiritually disciplined,

00:40:59.300 to not hoard resources for yourself even, to have a more healthy relationship with the physical world,

00:41:07.020 you should lose weight. And they say, how dare you? Or what about the transgender phobia? 0.99

00:41:15.800 If I make an argument and I say that, look, I'm using my reason, and I think men and women are

00:41:21.720 different, and I don't see how your true identity could differ from your natural biological sex.

00:41:28.440 And when you look at the rates of depression and anxiety and suicidality after the so-called

00:41:35.080 transgender reassignment surgery, actually none of it improves. And on one measure, according to the

00:41:39.860 largest data set on this ever, on anxiety, things actually seem to get a little bit worse.

00:41:43.960 And so for that reason, for many, many other reasons, which are philosophical, which are

00:41:48.260 anthropological, which are biological, which are psychological, for all of these reasons,

00:41:53.080 transgenderism does not appear to be true. And they would say, how dare you? How dare you bring up 0.99

00:41:58.700 reason and logic? They are the ones who deny any recourse to reason. Because what they say when you

00:42:05.800 ask them for a logical argument for their beliefs, is they say, well, there doesn't need to be a

00:42:11.620 logical argument, because it's just my subjective feeling. When you propose a debate, like we did

00:42:16.280 two days ago at the University of Pittsburgh, the very last minute, even the top scholars on this

00:42:20.880 stuff are going to drop out. They're going to drop out because the real phobes, the real people 0.99

00:42:26.840 who are being irrational here and who are, they're phobic, even of rationality itself,

00:42:32.440 they are, they are the libs. That's what they do. Now, another viral TikTok I do want to get to

00:42:38.320 before we go, this would be a black lady who really doesn't like white people. Can you imagine? Here's 1.00

00:42:47.340 why. I don't trust white people. I don't trust white people for a multitude of reasons, but one of 0.99

00:42:51.400 the main reasons is they're unpredictable. Like I think about all the times where I really considered 0.52

00:42:55.100 white people my friends, and then when we got in a small argument, they released all the racism they

00:42:59.100 hid throughout our whole friendship. Scary. And then I think about the fact that I become mutual

00:43:03.820 with people. What does that mean? Because that, that would be odd if you were friends with somebody

00:43:13.320 and then the moment you had a little tiff over, I don't know, hey, let's split the bill. No, I'll pick

00:43:18.720 up the bill. Or you had a little tiff over, I want to go see this movie. No, I want to go see that

00:43:22.460 movie. They just start saying, you, N-word, you, I'll be putting on your clan hood or something like

00:43:28.200 that. I don't, I don't believe that has ever happened. Now, does she mean that when she and

00:43:38.160 her white alleged friends get into an argument, the very fact of disagreeing is taken to be racist?

00:43:46.520 Because that's how the libs argue today. The libs argue today and they say, if you ever just disagree

00:43:52.660 with a black person, you've got to be racist. If you ever disagree with a transgender identifying 0.88

00:43:59.000 person, you're a transphobe. If you ever disagree on any topic, if you disagree on the idea that a

00:44:05.360 man can become a woman, you're, you're a phobic of some kind. I suspect that strongly what is implied

00:44:12.900 here. Keep going. Well, give them the opportunity to come clean about any problematic past. They say

00:44:17.080 nothing and then they get exposed for being racist. And it's never like some low key, like I used to

00:44:22.200 say the N-word in songs. No, it's like N-word hard R against black people. Like, like tell me why 1.00

00:44:28.100 white people are normalizing racist pasts. Also, I think about the fact that white people have 0.64

00:44:33.640 continuously, when given the opportunity, oppressed multiple marginalized communities. And I think about

00:44:39.900 the fact how easy it is for them to do it again. Like if they really wanted to, they would bring

00:44:44.060 slavery back. They kind of already did with the criminal justice system. Plus the rate of hate 0.90

00:44:48.580 crimes. I will legit always be scared of white people until they're the minority, which I hope 1.00

00:44:54.020 will be sooner than I think. So what is she going to do then? What if white people became the minority

00:45:01.040 and this woman wants an explicitly racial form of the justice system? What happens to the white 1.00

00:45:09.260 people when that lady's in charge? You see the flaw in her argument, of course. She says 1.00

00:45:14.360 that white people, all they want to do is oppress black people. They're just so oppressive. That's 1.00

00:45:21.260 why they have affirmative action. That's why they keep pushing these crazy reparations policies. 0.62

00:45:26.080 That's why they have all of these, these rules. That's why they don't, when BLM is riding around the

00:45:32.820 country, they don't punish them at all. But when a yokel and a granny show up to the Capitol on 1.00

00:45:37.480 January 6th, they throw them into solitary confinement because they want to oppress the 0.98

00:45:40.620 black people so much. If white people are the majority of the country, which this woman's 1.00

00:45:46.800 lamenting, then why aren't the white people doing that now? Why aren't they bringing slavery 0.80

00:45:52.080 back now? She has a little parenthetical. She says, well, they sort of have through the

00:45:55.900 criminal justice system. So she's saying, if you punish criminals, you punish robbers and

00:46:02.180 murderers and killers, then you're, that's the equivalent of slavery. So she's giving 0.99

00:46:09.000 you a vision of the criminal justice system under her preferred world. And that would be

00:46:13.280 a criminal justice system in which white people can't do anything right, in which the jails 0.68

00:46:19.880 are emptied, criminals are let off the hook. It would be a criminal justice system that is

00:46:25.560 explicit about punishing people for their race. We have a justice system right now that does 0.80

00:46:33.000 actually punish people for their race. It punishes white people and Asian people. If they're the wrong

00:46:37.220 race, and those are the two wrong races, then they have a harder time getting into college. They have

00:46:42.040 a harder time getting jobs. And if you're a part of a favored race, then you have an easier time

00:46:47.200 having those things. And what this woman is saying is, well, once I'm in power, we're going to turn that

00:46:54.720 up to 11, baby. I don't know. That doesn't seem great. That doesn't seem like a great idea. Now,

00:47:00.600 I'm very sorry to say there won't be a member block today. Mr. Davies has written in my teleprompter

00:47:07.520 that I should blame producer Danny for this. That doesn't make a lot of sense. That doesn't seem like

00:47:12.320 a rational, reasonable thing to do. I will blame Mr. Davies for that because, you know, we are here in

00:47:18.640 Washington, D.C. We did the Tim Pool show last night. It was a lot of fun. You can catch that over at

00:47:22.900 Tim's YouTube channel, Timcast IRL. And now Mr. Davies is saying, oh, I've got to get on an

00:47:28.000 airplane right now. So I've got to pack up the whole studio in this hotel room, and I'm not allowed

00:47:32.800 to do the member block. Well, okay. I think we need to figure out different flights next time,

00:47:38.160 Mr. Davies. Okay. Well, there's so much more that I want to get to. I guess we're just going to

00:47:44.360 have to hold that for tomorrow. At least I did get a live in-person member block yesterday with some

00:47:50.640 members of the creme de la creme who came out to pit. We had a nice cigar and a drink yesterday

00:47:54.440 afternoon. So hopefully we'll be able to do that again soon. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

00:47:57.840 This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.

The Michael Knowles Show - April 20, 2023

Ep. 1229 - Losing Weight Is Fatphobic... According To These People

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