The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1230 - Anti-White Trend Has Hit The Absurd Levels

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00:00:37.660 Do you not want to work with certain races of people?

00:00:40.680 Well, great news.

00:00:41.820 LinkedIn will now allow users to filter job applicants by their race.

00:00:47.320 LinkedIn users can now search for applicants of a preferred race, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

00:00:56.180 The new feature is part of LinkedIn's diversity in recruiting tools, meaning that the intention of the tool is not, as some might worry,

00:01:05.860 to discriminate against black people or Hispanic people or trans-identifying people or LGB-identifying people or any other supposedly marginalized group.

00:01:18.000 On the contrary, the tool is designed to designate in favor of all those groups.

00:01:24.560 If an employer ever discriminated against those groups, he would be hauled into court.

00:01:29.900 He would likely lose his business.

00:01:31.380 If, on the other hand, he used the tool as it is intended and discriminated on behalf of those groups against all the other groups,

00:01:40.820 white people, straight people, and so on, he would be applauded by our culture and political class.

00:01:47.500 Which is why I can't muster very much outrage at LinkedIn for this move.

00:01:52.480 Yes, this kind of discrimination is ugly and unjust.

00:01:57.740 But that is not LinkedIn's fault.

00:02:00.020 LinkedIn is just following the unjust laws that the libs have enshrined.

00:02:04.360 Changing some feature on the least important social media network is not going to do much of anything.

00:02:10.420 If you don't like this injustice, the only solution that will actually fix the problem is to change the law.

00:02:18.340 I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:20.060 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:30.380 In just a moment, we will have a really important story coming out of a Washington middle school

00:02:35.080 in which teachers and students are licking opposite sides of a pane of glass

00:02:39.960 and slurping up whipped cream as part of some kind of lesson.

00:02:45.940 I don't, the real lesson is that COVID's over, I guess.

00:02:48.540 But we will get to that in just one second as the sexualization of young schoolchildren continues. 0.74

00:02:55.140 First, though, back on this racial politics stuff.

00:02:59.360 Did you know that Netflix is making a docudrama about Cleopatra?

00:03:05.320 That doesn't seem particularly unusual.

00:03:07.600 Cleopatra's a very important historical figure.

00:03:09.780 What's strange about the docudrama is that they've decided to cast a black woman as Cleopatra.

00:03:18.060 The docudrama is called African Queens, Queen Cleopatra.

00:03:22.940 And so I can understand you're African and some people who don't know about the history of Africa,

00:03:28.440 the difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

00:03:30.720 You might think, well, African, that must mean that she's African. 0.99

00:03:34.580 But Cleopatra very much was not African.

00:03:37.720 She was Macedonian Greek.

00:03:39.720 This is not particularly controversial.

00:03:42.300 And they cast a black actress to play her. 0.71

00:03:46.380 This is not complicated.

00:03:47.700 This is just about antipathy toward white people.

00:03:53.040 A while ago, there was a conservative who posted on Twitter and said that Daily Wire's new movie project

00:03:58.540 was going to be a biography, a biopic of Malcolm X, and it was going to star me. 0.88

00:04:03.440 And everyone laughed because that would be ridiculous.

00:04:06.080 I don't think that I'm going to be playing Malcolm X.

00:04:08.540 I don't think that Ryan Gosling is going to be playing Martin Luther King Jr. anytime soon.

00:04:14.080 And if this happened, not only would people laugh at it, but of course there would be a national uproar.

00:04:18.500 Film studios would shut down.

00:04:20.180 People would burn effigies and set the country on fire.

00:04:24.080 And in the other direction, it doesn't matter. 0.80

00:04:27.280 This isn't hypocrisy.

00:04:28.380 This is just antipathy toward white people in our culture.

00:04:31.860 You see this enshrined in the law.

00:04:33.160 White people are basically the only group, though Asians fall into it a little bit too,

00:04:37.100 of people against whom you can discriminate on the basis of race.

00:04:40.700 That's true in college admissions.

00:04:41.900 That's true in employment.

00:04:42.800 And it's true in our popular culture. 0.85

00:04:44.640 White people are the only race that you are encouraged to insult and make fun of and deride.

00:04:50.900 It's not only acceptable, but actually encouraged in our culture. 0.98

00:04:54.020 And that's just the way it is.

00:04:56.040 And that's what this is about.

00:04:57.740 This is why Cleopatra can be played by a black woman, 1.00

00:05:01.620 but I will not be able to play Malcolm X in the new biopic.

00:05:04.980 This is not to say that you can never have any race bending in movies.

00:05:11.260 A great example of, I felt, perfectly suitable race bending was the Denzel Washington Macbeth movie, 0.98

00:05:19.080 which is one of, maybe the greatest performance of Macbeth I've ever seen.

00:05:23.540 And the reason this was, I felt, totally fine is because we're not talking about a history here.

00:05:29.760 We're not talking about a biopic or a docudrama.

00:05:31.820 We're talking about a very famous play.

00:05:33.920 We're talking about Shakespeare, who is the most important playwright in the English language.

00:05:39.520 And one of the aspects of Shakespeare that has made him so important is that he writes about the human experience.

00:05:50.500 And so while there are different races of people in his plays, that's secondary to what he's saying about human nature.

00:05:56.700 The other reason it didn't really matter all that much is Denzel is just such an incredible actor that I just want to see the guy play Macbeth.

00:06:04.460 He's just a very, very good actor.

00:06:06.100 And it wasn't distracting, and in no way did this casting decision detract from the play.

00:06:12.200 Here, we're talking about not only an historical figure, but a docudrama.

00:06:17.560 So if you know you're just completely rewriting history, which is what the libs do all the time.

00:06:22.780 We're going to need to tell each other about real history, okay?

00:06:25.420 We're going to need to talk about it.

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00:07:31.960 Speaking of more racial politics, leftist Congress lady Pramila Jayapal.

00:07:38.820 I'm probably mispronouncing that, but there it goes.

00:07:42.480 Congresswoman Jayapal is arguing for U.S. amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

00:07:50.400 Millions, really probably tens of millions of illegal aliens.

00:07:53.660 And what's her argument?

00:07:54.860 Why do we need to give a bunch of foreign nationals who are in our country illegally, 1.00

00:07:59.820 why do we need to give them amnesty?

00:08:02.040 Well, she says, America needs immigrants in order to survive. 1.00

00:08:08.620 Quote, immigrants pick the food we eat. 0.93

00:08:12.420 Clean our homes.

00:08:13.780 She goes on to list a number of other service industry jobs.

00:08:16.720 And you hear this line all the time.

00:08:19.720 These are the two most shallow left-wing arguments on immigration.

00:08:24.720 They'll say, well, without immigration, you couldn't get tacos. 0.74

00:08:28.440 Could you imagine a world without Chinese food?

00:08:31.120 That's why we need to open up our borders and flood our country with 3 million foreigners every year. 1.00

00:08:35.900 Well, we can welcome some people in with just completely opening our borders. 1.00

00:08:40.480 I think we've got enough taco stands.

00:08:42.140 I like tacos as much as the next guy.

00:08:44.940 We're good.

00:08:45.480 I think we've saturated the taco market.

00:08:47.380 We don't need to ignore our laws, disrupt our social order, upend our self-governing republic in order to get another taco.

00:08:54.700 I think we're good on that.

00:08:55.740 But then the other argument they make is they say, well, there are jobs that Americans won't do.

00:09:01.000 If we don't let desperate foreigners in, who's going to scrub our toilets? 1.00

00:09:04.660 Which is offensive to everybody because it insinuates that Americans won't clean.

00:09:11.920 Americans are a pretty cleanly people.

00:09:14.580 If you've ever traveled to Europe, for instance, you'll notice that Americans are almost neurotically hygienic compared to Europeans, certainly compared to really everybody in the world.

00:09:26.740 I haven't traveled extensively through any other places, so my frame of reference is Europe.

00:09:33.260 But I've heard that China is not the most sanitary place. 0.98

00:09:36.380 I did go to India once.

00:09:38.280 Not all that clean.

00:09:39.540 I've never been to Africa, but I've heard it's not the most enjoyable experience when it comes to basic sanitation.

00:09:47.600 So, no, I think Americans, we could clean our own bathrooms if we wanted to.

00:09:51.040 That's not an argument for breaking the law.

00:09:54.020 Need them to pick our food.

00:09:55.980 I think Americans can pick food.

00:09:57.580 They can do that.

00:09:58.280 But then it's offensive in the other way, too, because immigrants, believe it or not, can do things other than clean our toilets. 1.00

00:10:05.580 Immigrants, even from those poor countries in Latin America or the Middle East or Africa or anywhere else, believe it or not, they're human.

00:10:14.080 They can do other jobs.

00:10:15.380 They don't just need to pick grapes and scrub our bathrooms. 1.00

00:10:19.560 They can do other things.

00:10:20.640 It's so patronizing, condescending, dehumanizing.

00:10:26.040 It's a perfect Democrat political argument because it is deeply offensive to everybody and not terribly persuasive.

00:10:38.680 Speaking of out-of-touch elites, though, the real breaking news yesterday that is causing garments to be rent in newsrooms all around the country.

00:10:49.780 It's causing gnashing of teeth everywhere in the liberal establishment.

00:10:55.600 They all lost their blue checks yesterday on Twitter.

00:11:00.020 Elon Musk had threatened to take away their blue checks.

00:11:04.420 He said he was going to take them away on 420.

00:11:07.080 It was just a 420 joke.

00:11:09.420 And then he did it.

00:11:10.500 He followed through.

00:11:12.860 I'm one of those blue checks.

00:11:14.240 I lost my blue check yesterday.

00:11:15.740 And I'm happy about it.

00:11:20.780 I think it's really funny.

00:11:22.640 The outcry of grief from the libs to me is worth the $8 a month that I will have to pay if I want to get my blue checkmark back.

00:11:32.600 Now, people are saying that this is a terrible move by Elon because the point of the blue checkmark was to verify people and to protect against stolen identities and imitation of public figures.

00:11:52.140 Okay.

00:11:52.620 And now Elon, by turning it into something that you can just pay for, taking it away from notable public figures, he is just destroying Twitter.

00:12:01.160 Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

00:12:04.300 Elon Musk did not destroy the meaning of the blue checkmark.

00:12:08.360 The libs at Twitter in the pre-Elon days, they destroyed the meaning of the blue checkmark.

00:12:14.600 The checkmark was called a verification checkmark.

00:12:17.520 But the libs at Twitter, especially around 2016, began to treat the blue checkmark as a sign of prestige, as a sign of the approval of the liberal establishment.

00:12:29.780 So if someone got a little bit too edgy, they would just take away the checkmark.

00:12:35.080 I remember this most clearly with Richard Spencer, who is a white identitarian type.

00:12:39.520 And Richard Spencer, who had a real moment as being the most odious figure in American life,

00:12:45.200 and the libs ran all sorts of specials about him, even though he wasn't particularly influential.

00:12:50.340 And he was pretty forthright about his views.

00:12:51.860 He said, I'm a white identitarian.

00:12:53.080 I'm a white identity activist.

00:12:54.860 And he had a checkmark because he had some prominence for some time, largely because CNN and the libs made such a big deal about him.

00:13:03.300 And then one day they took away his checkmark.

00:13:05.240 They didn't kick him off Twitter.

00:13:07.400 They didn't block his posts.

00:13:08.780 They just removed his checkmark.

00:13:10.620 And I thought, did he stop being Richard Spencer?

00:13:13.900 Why did he?

00:13:15.280 He's no longer verified, as you don't know.

00:13:17.760 Did someone hack his account?

00:13:18.920 What do you?

00:13:19.160 No.

00:13:20.000 They changed the meaning of the check.

00:13:22.140 And then Elon comes in, and mischievous Elon over there takes away their prestige.

00:13:30.700 I just, I love it.

00:13:31.560 I think it's terrific.

00:13:33.200 I wasn't planning on paying the $8 for it because I thought, okay, well, I had my, got my blue check a while ago.

00:13:42.980 It was cool.

00:13:43.660 Now I lose my blue check.

00:13:44.800 It's fine.

00:13:45.180 I haven't really looked into the extra features that you get if you do pay the $8.

00:13:49.680 They're probably worth it, $8 a month for a major social media platform, especially if you work in media.

00:13:54.040 It's not a big deal.

00:13:55.140 But I've decided, I think I am going to pay the $8.

00:13:58.240 And I'm going to pay the $8 for two reasons.

00:14:00.080 One, because the libs have turned the blue check now into a referendum on whether or not you support what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter.

00:14:08.660 And I do support what he's doing at Twitter.

00:14:10.580 I think it's really important and noble of him to do.

00:14:12.820 So I think that's worth $8.

00:14:14.260 Elon Musk doesn't need my $8, but Twitter probably does because it's very hard for Twitter to be profitable.

00:14:19.540 And so if I can show my support of him standing up for traditional standards of speech in America, I'm more than happy to do it.

00:14:27.160 But then the other reason, the more pressing reason as to why I think I'm going to pay my $8, get my blue check mark back, because of what Elon said about aliens.

00:14:36.440 In the great debate here at The Daily Wire between me and Mr. Walsh over the non-existence of aliens, Elon, who would know more about aliens than anybody else on Earth?

00:14:48.880 He's on Team Knowles.

00:14:49.880 Is that worth $8 a month?

00:14:50.900 Yeah, that's worth like $80 a month, okay?

00:14:53.520 So I'll try to get around to it today, but I will get my blue check mark back, and that'll make me feel really, really great.

00:15:03.180 Not about being verified or prominent, but about supporting a guy who's doing the right thing for free speech in America and who also realizes that aliens are totally fake.

00:15:12.080 Speaking of big changes to online journalism, BuzzFeed News is shutting down.

00:15:20.140 You're hearing that, and you're probably thinking, who cares?

00:15:22.220 I haven't thought about BuzzFeed News in years.

00:15:23.940 I know, neither have I.

00:15:26.420 But people used to talk about BuzzFeed News.

00:15:29.720 Ten years ago, eight, nine, ten years ago, BuzzFeed News was the future of the news.

00:15:35.140 You might remember that BuzzFeed News, or a fictional version of BuzzFeed News, was a major plot point on House of Cards, back when House of Cards was one of the biggest shows in the country.

00:15:46.000 This was going to be the future of journalism.

00:15:48.120 I remember when the Daily Wire started out, we would regularly talk about what success looked like.

00:15:54.560 What if we could become as big as this right-wing blog, or this online journal, or, oh, could you imagine the gold standard would be if we could be BuzzFeed News?

00:16:06.260 Wow, could you imagine?

00:16:08.940 Now, BuzzFeed News is gone.

00:16:11.760 Now, Daily Wire has blown way past that, thanks to all of you who listen and subscribe.

00:16:17.360 We don't give up blue check marks when you subscribe, but we appreciate your membership in any case.

00:16:21.880 But it's much bigger than that now, and BuzzFeed News is gone.

00:16:28.640 Shows you that things can change real fast in politics.

00:16:33.220 We were talking about this yesterday on the show.

00:16:35.920 I was sitting with a friend of mine.

00:16:37.560 My friend says, did you ever think that transing the kids would be the issue?

00:16:43.680 Did you ever think that whether or not you can chop a guy's genitals off and pretend that he's a lady, that that would be the big issue we're all talking about in 2023? 0.85

00:16:52.800 Back in 2008, Clinton and Obama were both running on marriage being the sacred union between a man and a woman. 0.89

00:16:58.380 They were mocking the notion of same-sex marriage.

00:17:00.720 Now we're at the point where we say, should we trans the five-year-olds?

00:17:03.280 Should we wait until they turn six or seven?

00:17:05.520 And I said to my friend, things change very fast.

00:17:10.700 Very, very fast.

00:17:11.840 And this is depressing because of the way that things have degraded so quickly in the United States.

00:17:18.100 But this should offer a little glimmer of hope to conservatives here.

00:17:21.140 There's a line from Cardinal Manning who says, there is a day to come that will challenge the confident judgments of men.

00:17:27.080 There are so many people who say the conservatives are finished.

00:17:30.880 Progressive, liberal society has won.

00:17:33.940 We've reached the end of history.

00:17:35.980 99% chance that Donald Trump doesn't win in 2016.

00:17:40.140 You hear this stuff all the time.

00:17:42.400 And then what happens?

00:17:44.680 Then things can change very, very quickly.

00:17:47.980 Speaking of great changes, Governor Ron DeSantis down there in Florida has expanded the don't say gay so-called bill.

00:17:58.620 The conservatives were defending it, calling it the wait till eight bill.

00:18:01.460 It was a bill that said that in elementary schools, teachers can't trans the kids until the fourth grade.

00:18:07.660 They can't start preaching transgenderism in the classroom from kindergarten through third grade.

00:18:12.960 It seems reasonable enough, but it seemed kind of weak, didn't it?

00:18:18.960 I'm not knocking DeSantis.

00:18:20.180 He did what he felt he had the political capital to do at the moment.

00:18:23.540 I thought, this is it.

00:18:24.460 This is the reason I gave my CPAC speech.

00:18:26.560 I said, the fight over transgenderism now is third grade versus fourth grade.

00:18:30.320 Give me a break.

00:18:31.940 Transgenderism is just false. 1.00

00:18:32.820 It shouldn't be taught anywhere.

00:18:34.020 It shouldn't be tolerated as a matter of public life.

00:18:36.360 It's a false anthropology.

00:18:37.320 And I strongly encourage conservative politicians to take a much tougher stance on it, to not feel like we had to be backed in this corner, but to go on the offense because the American people are on our side.

00:18:49.580 According to Pew Research, 60% of Americans believe that gender is determined by biological sex.

00:18:55.140 And though that number should be higher, the number is up from 2021.

00:18:59.680 Just a couple of years ago, the number was 56%.

00:19:02.100 Back in 2017, the number was 54%.

00:19:04.660 So the clear majority of Americans are on our side on transgenderism, period.

00:19:08.900 Not just for the kids, but the whole thing.

00:19:10.540 And that number is increasing.

00:19:11.980 So now's the time to move.

00:19:13.360 And that's what Ron DeSantis is doing.

00:19:15.480 His administration has expanded the so-called don't say gay bill and said, okay, we're not going to teach transgenderism anywhere K through 12.

00:19:23.840 Great stuff, Governor DeSantis.

00:19:26.240 Love to see that.

00:19:27.880 And he's come out strong.

00:19:28.860 He was just being interviewed by Benny Johnson.

00:19:30.980 And he was asked about transgenderism broadly.

00:19:34.660 Here's the governor's line.

00:19:36.720 Some of this is, yes, it's taking away opportunities and athletics and some other stuff.

00:19:41.560 And that's really, really important.

00:19:42.940 But I think there's also just the issue of, are we going to be a society based on truth?

00:19:47.560 Are we going to be a society based on deceit?

00:19:50.260 And if you take a man and they dress up as a woman and you tell me I have to accept that they're a woman, then you're asking me to be complicit in a lie. 0.69

00:19:58.040 And I just refuse to do that.

00:19:59.440 So we've got to tell the truth.

00:20:01.180 I think, you know, the truth will set you free.

00:20:03.460 And let's just be honest about what's going on here.

00:20:06.740 Love this.

00:20:07.920 Great stuff.

00:20:08.920 I wish if I had a moving camera, I would give up and give Governor DeSantis a standing ovation for saying this.

00:20:16.400 This is the line every Republican running for president, every Republican running for office should adopt this.

00:20:23.620 Transgenderism is not about whether to pump cross-sex hormones into seven-year-olds versus eight-year-olds.

00:20:31.160 Transgenderism is either entirely true or entirely false. 1.00

00:20:34.540 There are some political issues where you can have a nice conciliatory middle ground, like on taxes or immigration.

00:20:40.200 Well, I want to take in two million immigrants.

00:20:41.520 I want to take in no immigrants. 1.00

00:20:42.760 Okay, let's take in 500,000.

00:20:44.600 Okay, I want tax rates to be 30%.

00:20:46.840 I want them to be 25%. 0.51

00:20:48.100 Okay, we'll meet at 27.

00:20:49.920 Certain issues you can't meet in the middle because they're mutually exclusive.

00:20:54.600 They're mutually contradictory options.

00:20:56.260 If transgenderism is true at all for anybody in society at any age, and then we let those men go into the women's bathroom, then that means women's bathrooms cease to exist. 0.98

00:21:08.960 The very concept of a bathroom only for women ceases to exist.

00:21:13.460 And I use the bathrooms because they're so evocative, but it's true of all the rights and privileges of women in society as women. 1.00

00:21:18.660 The moment you entertain transgenderism at all for even one single person, you obliterate the category of women and the rights that they have traditionally had for all of human history, certainly for the history of our civilization. 0.90

00:21:34.420 So you can't try to find a middle ground here.

00:21:37.440 You'll split the baby. 1.00

00:21:38.240 It'll be no good for anybody.

00:21:40.360 You've got to come out and say, are we going to be a society based on truth or a society based on cynicism?

00:21:46.060 The cynicism of Pontius Pilate who says, what is truth?

00:21:48.620 A society that ignores the truth.

00:21:50.240 That society is not going to do very well.

00:21:52.100 The society based on truth will.

00:21:54.040 So great stuff.

00:21:54.980 Great stuff here from Governor DeSantis.

00:21:57.200 Hope to see more of it from all the other Republicans.

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00:23:34.140 My favorite comment yesterday is from Michael Popescu, who says,

00:23:40.100 My co-workers are wondering why I'm dying laughing after that trans-slenderism line. 1.00

00:23:45.480 Thanks, Michael.

00:23:46.660 That occurred to me yesterday while we were discussing the public health scourge of fat phobia,

00:23:53.660 according to that viral TikToker.

00:23:55.700 And I said we had to move from transgenderism to discussing trans-slenderism. 0.89

00:24:00.180 I don't think it's an original phrase.

00:24:01.920 I'm sure I saw that on a meme somewhere, but whoever said it, brilliant stuff,

00:24:06.920 and I'm more than happy to popularize this new, very important term.

00:24:11.900 Okay, speaking of really weird, obviously sexual stuff,

00:24:19.480 there's a Washington middle school.

00:24:20.800 I have to give a shout out to Ollie London for finding this.

00:24:24.840 A middle school in Washington that was holding a competition,

00:24:29.600 and it was a competition not only between students and not only between staff members,

00:24:37.340 but between students and staff members sometimes competing against each other.

00:24:40.960 And the competition was you would squirt a little bit of whipped cream on a pane of glass,

00:24:47.000 on either side of a pane of glass,

00:24:48.820 and you'd have one person on one side and one person on the other,

00:24:51.660 and then they would lick the cream exactly opposite one another.

00:24:59.660 Yeah.

00:25:00.980 What?

00:25:03.660 That's gross.

00:25:04.900 All right, that's actually, that's enough.

00:25:19.680 I've seen, I've, I've, I've now, I hadn't, hadn't seen the video.

00:25:22.080 I just saw the report on it and had our editors pull the clip, but that's enough.

00:25:26.500 I think I get it.

00:25:27.200 How do you watch that video?

00:25:29.420 How do you even hear about this story and conclude that this isn't a weird sex thing

00:25:35.020 for whoever thought it up?

00:25:38.700 I, I don't see how.

00:25:40.620 One, I guess the silver lining in the storm cloud is,

00:25:43.040 glad to see that COVID is over in the schools.

00:25:45.520 Glad to see that now, not only are we allowed to meet with one another,

00:25:49.480 but we're allowed to just lick panes of glass

00:25:52.120 and then swap out the students and the teachers,

00:25:55.580 and then they lick all the same panes of glass.

00:25:57.860 And I'm glad that that's over.

00:25:59.620 But two,

00:26:02.100 in, in what world is this acceptable?

00:26:06.120 I'll tell you the world that this is acceptable in.

00:26:08.020 This is acceptable at a weird party in college

00:26:13.960 that's put on probably in some frat house basement

00:26:17.220 where everyone is just kind of giggling

00:26:19.520 and they're all being a little bit naughty and tee hee hee.

00:26:21.920 Are you going to lick the whipped cream off the glass or whatever?

00:26:25.380 Okay, that's where I would expect to see a game like this.

00:26:28.640 Just a, a more licentious version of spin the bottle or something.

00:26:34.980 Okay.

00:26:37.480 That kind of a game makes sense to me in that kind of environment.

00:26:41.980 I'm not saying I'm encouraging it or anything like that,

00:26:44.060 but I get it there.

00:26:46.240 That kind of a game very much does not make sense in a middle school.

00:26:51.920 This is one of the more nuanced conservative points

00:26:55.060 on the whole drag queen story hour discussion and debate.

00:26:59.220 It's a point that Jonathan Peugeot has alluded to as well.

00:27:02.400 If you tell me that we have a society in which,

00:27:05.800 in some dark alleyway,

00:27:07.340 in the bad part of town,

00:27:08.560 with the red lights,

00:27:09.600 there's a cabaret that puts on weird drag shows

00:27:12.280 for guys who show their ID and pay some money to get in

00:27:17.640 and they're kind of embarrassed by it,

00:27:19.340 but whatever, it's some weird quirk that they have.

00:27:22.120 I get that.

00:27:23.140 I'm not recommending that.

00:27:24.240 I'm not saying that's a great thing that society should embrace,

00:27:26.720 but okay, I get that.

00:27:29.140 But the moment that you take that fringe,

00:27:32.340 bizarre, shameful activity,

00:27:35.040 and you put that in the very center of society,

00:27:37.960 you take it away from that side street,

00:27:39.360 you put it in the public square,

00:27:40.620 right in the middle,

00:27:41.440 you put it on TV,

00:27:42.600 you put it in the elementary school classroom,

00:27:44.840 then things have gotten really strange.

00:27:48.580 And the way that Jonathan Peugeot alludes to this

00:27:51.360 is he says,

00:27:52.980 if you look at medieval manuscripts

00:27:54.100 or if you look at medieval and gothic cathedrals,

00:27:57.600 you'll see gargoyles

00:27:58.980 and all sorts of eccentric things

00:28:01.060 on the fringes,

00:28:01.980 on the outside,

00:28:02.880 in the corners of the cathedral

00:28:04.660 and of the manuscript.

00:28:07.160 Elves with horns 0.96

00:28:08.680 and weird sort of genitals 1.00

00:28:10.080 doing all sorts of silly, mischievous things. 0.99

00:28:12.540 You'll see that on the fringes. 0.88

00:28:16.880 Well, there are fringes to society,

00:28:19.380 but when you put the things

00:28:21.460 that are supposed to be on the fringes

00:28:22.880 at the center of society,

00:28:24.660 then you invert your standards.

00:28:26.480 Then society gets to be really, really weird.

00:28:29.740 I would recommend

00:28:30.880 that the school investigate

00:28:33.500 whoever came up with this idea.

00:28:35.540 Because while it might seem like weird,

00:28:38.560 basically innocent kind of fun to some people,

00:28:42.320 whoever proposed

00:28:43.480 and permitted this kind of a game to go on

00:28:47.120 is definitely a creep.

00:28:50.080 There's just no way about it.

00:28:51.920 Okay.

00:28:53.240 Now, getting back to 2024

00:28:55.800 and the DeSantis of it all for a second.

00:28:58.980 I just would like to establish at the outset,

00:29:02.540 I've said from the beginning,

00:29:03.880 I do not, as a rule,

00:29:05.820 make endorsements in primary campaigns.

00:29:08.080 I don't think that's my job.

00:29:09.440 And especially in 2024,

00:29:12.000 I think we're in uncharted territory

00:29:15.180 in terms of a defeated Republican,

00:29:17.620 a reportedly defeated Republican president

00:29:21.940 who is then running for re-election.

00:29:24.040 And you've got a strong Republican governor coming there,

00:29:26.860 but you've got a big split in the GOP

00:29:29.780 between the old kind of liberal way of doing things,

00:29:34.660 the squishy way of doing things,

00:29:35.780 and this new insurgent, muscular, assertive,

00:29:39.080 more nationally focused,

00:29:40.480 more populist,

00:29:41.560 more virtue-minded

00:29:43.280 rather than libertarian-minded

00:29:44.780 kind of conservatism.

00:29:46.940 And so I think we ought to let the thing play out.

00:29:50.160 I love Donald Trump.

00:29:51.260 He's the best president of my lifetime.

00:29:53.180 I just think he's terrific.

00:29:54.520 And I think he offered a real alternative

00:29:56.680 to a lot of the squishy Republican policies

00:29:59.340 of the past.

00:30:01.460 Because of the Trump movement,

00:30:04.400 you saw governors like Ron DeSantis come up.

00:30:06.920 And Ron DeSantis has done a terrific job in Florida.

00:30:09.560 So Ron DeSantis now is making the argument,

00:30:11.800 I'm younger,

00:30:12.800 I get what's going on here,

00:30:16.000 I don't have the baggage that Trump does,

00:30:17.720 so he's making his play.

00:30:19.200 And they're both making the play

00:30:21.220 for the same kind of campaign.

00:30:23.500 Then there are a lot of other people

00:30:24.260 running for president as well.

00:30:25.420 So I'm just putting this out at the front.

00:30:27.640 I know there are a lot of pundits who say,

00:30:28.960 I'm only for DeSantis,

00:30:30.520 I'm totally on the DeSantis train.

00:30:32.220 Or they'll say,

00:30:33.400 DeSantis is a total establishment, 0.77

00:30:35.180 squish, hack, neocon,

00:30:36.320 or whatever things are saying

00:30:37.140 because they're on the Trump train.

00:30:38.880 And here I am.

00:30:40.260 Here I am, the lone Republican,

00:30:42.320 saying, this is a primary.

00:30:45.160 Let's recognize that Trump's the best president

00:30:46.920 in our lifetimes.

00:30:47.820 Let's recognize that DeSantis

00:30:49.220 has done a great job as governor.

00:30:50.660 Let's recognize these are big boys.

00:30:52.200 They got thick skin.

00:30:53.440 They know how to make it through an election.

00:30:55.560 They can run for an office.

00:30:57.460 And we'll let the process play out.

00:30:59.340 So one of the people who's now coming out

00:31:01.780 in favor of DeSantis,

00:31:03.740 as the politicians are going to do now,

00:31:05.200 you're going to increasingly see

00:31:06.320 more and more endorsements among the electeds,

00:31:09.080 is Chip Roy,

00:31:09.860 who is a great member of Congress,

00:31:11.940 a former chief of staff to Ted Cruz.

00:31:13.840 I'm pretty sure he was Ted's chief of staff,

00:31:16.200 now a member of Congress in his own right.

00:31:18.040 And he says,

00:31:18.800 I love Trump,

00:31:20.500 but I'm endorsing DeSantis.

00:31:22.080 Look, I was a strong supporter

00:31:24.420 of Senator Ted Cruz in 2016 in the primary.

00:31:27.160 Yeah.

00:31:27.420 Got behind President Trump

00:31:29.080 once we chose him as the nominee

00:31:31.460 on May 3rd of that year.

00:31:32.680 I remember it well.

00:31:33.860 This time I'm supporting Ron DeSantis.

00:31:35.940 I'll support the Republican nominee

00:31:37.280 no matter what.

00:31:37.960 I'm a strong supporter

00:31:38.780 of the America First agenda.

00:31:40.420 But look,

00:31:40.800 I put out in my statement,

00:31:42.840 I think it's time to have someone

00:31:44.120 who's not a baby boomer,

00:31:45.580 somebody who can serve for two terms

00:31:47.480 that we know we can get behind

00:31:48.560 to root out all the corruption in this town

00:31:50.260 and beat the swamp

00:31:51.560 that President Trump so ably started

00:31:54.080 when he came in in 2016.

00:31:56.200 And look,

00:31:57.400 Governor DeSantis

00:31:57.880 has an enormously successful record.

00:32:00.080 And he just won re-election

00:32:01.340 by a million and a half votes.

00:32:03.140 He won 62% of Hispanic voters,

00:32:05.900 50% of single females.

00:32:08.800 They have massive job growth,

00:32:10.500 great economy.

00:32:11.640 He's taken on the education establishment.

00:32:13.840 He's taken on the corporate establishment

00:32:15.520 with Disney.

00:32:16.680 And so I just think it's time

00:32:17.900 we have someone

00:32:18.500 that we can take a new generation into town

00:32:20.820 and we can kind of build

00:32:22.480 on what President Trump started.

00:32:24.180 And Governor DeSantis

00:32:24.820 is a great guy

00:32:25.580 to get behind to do that.

00:32:27.440 Okay.

00:32:28.520 Very well articulated endorsement.

00:32:30.600 What's interesting to me

00:32:31.540 is not that he picked

00:32:32.460 DeSantis over Trump

00:32:34.360 or anything like that.

00:32:35.120 What's most interesting to me

00:32:36.220 is how temperate

00:32:38.600 this endorsement was,

00:32:39.620 how polite this endorsement was.

00:32:42.040 And I think you're going to see

00:32:43.160 a lot of these kinds of endorsements,

00:32:44.560 especially from the serious people,

00:32:46.280 which is,

00:32:47.920 I love Trump,

00:32:48.800 but I think DeSantis

00:32:49.480 is better for the moment.

00:32:50.680 Or, contrary to that,

00:32:52.440 I love DeSantis,

00:32:53.380 he's a good governor,

00:32:54.040 but I think Trump is better

00:32:54.980 for the moment.

00:32:57.660 And there are other candidates as well.

00:32:59.140 Our friend Larry Elder

00:32:59.940 just announced

00:33:00.420 that he's going to run for president.

00:33:01.720 Obviously,

00:33:02.200 we've had Vivek on the show before.

00:33:03.600 We've had Nikki Haley

00:33:04.260 on the show before.

00:33:05.200 There are other people

00:33:05.980 who are running

00:33:07.200 and they very possibly

00:33:09.520 will have moments in the race

00:33:10.680 and who knows,

00:33:11.320 they can maybe take the whole thing.

00:33:12.280 All the Republicans now

00:33:15.680 that I talk to,

00:33:16.640 they're a little bit upset

00:33:17.820 because they say,

00:33:18.500 oh, I just wish DeSantis

00:33:20.180 would wait his turn.

00:33:22.260 Oh, now it's going to be

00:33:23.380 a mean primary.

00:33:24.280 Or, contrary to that,

00:33:25.020 I just, oh, I wish Trump

00:33:26.100 would get out of the way.

00:33:27.420 Oh, and just give it to DeSantis.

00:33:31.680 When you've got endorsements

00:33:33.100 that say,

00:33:33.480 I love this guy,

00:33:34.400 but I'm giving this other one

00:33:35.600 the slight edge,

00:33:36.800 that's a good problem to have.

00:33:39.140 It's a good problem to have

00:33:40.380 that we have strong GOP candidates

00:33:43.440 who are moving the party

00:33:45.620 in the right direction on policy.

00:33:48.140 Can we be happy with that?

00:33:49.640 Conservatives,

00:33:50.100 we always want to be so doer.

00:33:51.560 You know,

00:33:51.760 we always want to say,

00:33:52.500 oh, the world is ending.

00:33:53.680 It's all over.

00:33:54.920 We've lost everything.

00:33:55.920 Our problem right now in 2024

00:33:57.620 is that we've got two candidates

00:33:59.380 who are too good,

00:34:00.360 who we like too much.

00:34:02.900 And more than that, actually.

00:34:04.420 Because as you know,

00:34:05.540 I think I'm going to try

00:34:06.540 to interview all of the,

00:34:07.560 all of the Republican candidates.

00:34:09.720 We've got more than that.

00:34:10.660 DeSantis and Trump are the two

00:34:11.660 far and away at the top

00:34:12.480 of the polls right now.

00:34:13.300 But we've got lots of candidates

00:34:14.620 who are great.

00:34:15.100 I'm looking down at my iPad

00:34:16.360 with the member chat.

00:34:17.840 People love the bake.

00:34:19.300 People love,

00:34:20.080 people are saying,

00:34:20.580 oh, Larry Elder just announced it.

00:34:21.840 There's a lot of great candidates.

00:34:23.700 Take the win, guys.

00:34:24.960 Let the process play out.

00:34:26.380 See who's the toughest one.

00:34:27.520 See who's the best one.

00:34:28.880 And we go on

00:34:29.840 and we try to undo

00:34:30.800 the rigging of elections

00:34:31.760 by the Democrats

00:34:32.540 and we try to own the libs.

00:34:34.100 Sounds like a plan to me.

00:34:35.960 Let me ask you a question.

00:34:37.560 When was the last time you prayed?

00:34:39.560 Maybe a better question to ask

00:34:40.760 is when was the last time

00:34:41.600 you thought about

00:34:42.500 the meaning of prayer?

00:34:43.560 Many of us see prayer

00:34:44.720 as a way of petitioning

00:34:45.860 God for something.

00:34:47.720 But as with all things

00:34:49.200 concerning God,

00:34:50.240 there is more to it than that.

00:34:51.680 That is the way

00:34:52.480 Ben describes it

00:34:53.360 in the latest episode

00:34:54.100 of Exodus,

00:34:55.060 the fantastic series

00:34:56.200 from Jordan Peterson.

00:34:57.260 The idea of prayer

00:34:59.540 that you're talking about

00:35:00.760 is obviously

00:35:01.600 a lot more meaningful

00:35:02.180 because it's really

00:35:02.800 not about changing

00:35:03.420 God's mind.

00:35:04.000 It's about changing

00:35:04.380 who you are

00:35:05.040 and thus God

00:35:05.720 naturally responds

00:35:06.640 to you differently

00:35:07.040 because you're not

00:35:07.580 the person that you were

00:35:08.380 before you prayed.

00:35:09.740 The verb to pray

00:35:11.460 in Hebrew

00:35:11.960 is actually

00:35:12.580 in the reflexive tense,

00:35:13.740 lahit palel,

00:35:14.740 which is supposed to,

00:35:15.580 the idea is that

00:35:16.060 it's supposed to be

00:35:16.700 something that acts on you.

00:35:17.840 The prayer is supposed

00:35:18.340 to act on you.

00:35:19.000 It's not supposed to be

00:35:19.640 something where you're

00:35:20.320 attempting to pry

00:35:21.440 an answer out of God.

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00:36:01.260 Take it away.

00:36:02.800 Hello, Mr. Knowles.

00:36:04.060 It has slapped my base

00:36:05.000 once again,

00:36:05.680 and I'm coming to you

00:36:06.580 with a situational question.

00:36:08.060 Let's call it,

00:36:09.040 am I the Democrat?

00:36:10.600 So, I have been asked

00:36:12.120 to travel for work

00:36:13.300 about three states away

00:36:14.400 from where I live,

00:36:15.880 and it happens to fall

00:36:17.160 on the same weekend

00:36:18.020 as my cousin's wedding.

00:36:19.480 Now, I had been asked

00:36:20.620 to travel for work

00:36:21.700 months prior to being

00:36:23.260 invited to the wedding,

00:36:24.220 and I've already declined

00:36:26.440 going to my cousin's wedding

00:36:27.780 because I had been asked

00:36:30.680 to work,

00:36:32.220 and naturally,

00:36:32.960 my family is extremely upset.

00:36:35.200 They are already

00:36:36.160 not talking to me.

00:36:37.320 They are holding it

00:36:39.060 against me,

00:36:39.860 but at the same time, too,

00:36:42.140 I'm on the idea

00:36:43.680 that it's first come,

00:36:44.760 first serve.

00:36:45.340 So, my question to you is,

00:36:48.000 am I the Democrat

00:36:48.880 for accepting

00:36:50.800 to take a business trip

00:36:52.260 to work

00:36:53.000 prior to going

00:36:54.360 to a family event,

00:36:55.240 or should I have

00:36:56.360 canceled the business trip,

00:36:57.980 explained to my work

00:36:59.200 that this is a family event

00:37:01.720 that I need to attend?

00:37:03.440 Your input would be

00:37:04.540 very greatly appreciated.

00:37:05.880 Thanks.

00:37:06.140 No, you're right.

00:37:09.440 Your family's wrong.

00:37:11.000 The only caveat is,

00:37:13.100 are you that close

00:37:15.180 with your cousin?

00:37:15.880 Are you in the wedding party?

00:37:17.080 Are you the best man?

00:37:18.140 I mean, maybe in that case,

00:37:19.920 there's an argument

00:37:20.980 to say,

00:37:22.460 all right,

00:37:22.760 I've got to ditch

00:37:23.240 this work trip

00:37:23.900 to go to the wedding,

00:37:24.700 but if your cousin

00:37:27.920 is your cousin,

00:37:28.680 and so you're family,

00:37:29.580 you love your family,

00:37:30.680 but, you know,

00:37:32.300 you're not roommates

00:37:33.000 or anything like that,

00:37:34.400 then no,

00:37:34.840 you've got to work.

00:37:35.820 That's okay.

00:37:38.140 The families that I have seen

00:37:39.600 work best

00:37:40.300 are the families

00:37:42.060 who

00:37:42.960 love each other unconditionally,

00:37:46.600 love spending time together,

00:37:49.120 but don't

00:37:50.080 feel the need

00:37:51.760 to spend all the time together,

00:37:53.600 that don't constantly

00:37:54.600 put these kind of

00:37:55.520 guilt trips on people.

00:37:56.840 That's not good.

00:37:58.500 You're a man.

00:37:59.560 You've got to work.

00:38:00.900 It's nice to go

00:38:01.640 to your cousin's wedding,

00:38:03.100 but you've agreed

00:38:05.000 to take on

00:38:06.060 this responsibility

00:38:06.680 for your job,

00:38:07.880 and that's what

00:38:08.320 you're supposed to do.

00:38:09.400 Are you kidding?

00:38:09.820 Are you the Democrat?

00:38:10.540 Give me a break.

00:38:11.980 No, I don't think so, Buster.

00:38:13.320 That's okay.

00:38:13.700 You can, you know,

00:38:15.240 if it's your brother's wedding,

00:38:16.360 I don't know if you're,

00:38:16.960 but we need to use prudence here, okay?

00:38:18.700 We need to recognize

00:38:19.500 there are gradations

00:38:20.600 of importance.

00:38:22.060 Next question.

00:38:24.420 Hello, Michael.

00:38:26.240 You have had quite an impact

00:38:28.160 on my 20-year-old son.

00:38:30.380 And for he and I to bond,

00:38:32.860 we listen to your show together

00:38:34.560 and we watch it as well sometimes.

00:38:37.160 I appreciate your conservative approach

00:38:40.940 and the Daily Wire influence in general,

00:38:43.800 and I enjoy listening

00:38:44.900 and watching with my son.

00:38:46.480 I am a dental hygienist,

00:38:49.880 and I was just curious

00:38:51.840 how often you see

00:38:53.600 your dental hygienist

00:38:54.940 if you go every six months

00:38:56.500 because you have

00:38:57.720 an impressive set of teeth.

00:39:00.040 I can see that good oral care

00:39:02.400 must be important to you.

00:39:05.900 So how often do you see

00:39:08.580 your dental hygienist?

00:39:09.600 I never go to the dentist.

00:39:16.560 I don't have a dentist in Tennessee.

00:39:20.220 I'm honored.

00:39:21.440 I feared you were going to say,

00:39:22.480 Michael, I'm a dental hygienist,

00:39:23.600 and you need to go in

00:39:25.280 for emergency reconstructive surgery,

00:39:27.500 especially because I drink coffee

00:39:30.620 and dark liquor

00:39:32.540 and red wine.

00:39:35.160 I smoke cigars.

00:39:38.660 But you know what I do?

00:39:40.080 I use an electric toothbrush.

00:39:42.520 So they get nice and pearly white.

00:39:44.380 I don't know.

00:39:44.680 Maybe it's good genes.

00:39:45.500 I don't know what it is,

00:39:46.180 but thank you.

00:39:47.020 And now you're making me think

00:39:48.740 I need to go to the dentist.

00:39:50.160 It's like when you do go to the dentist,

00:39:51.640 and then the dentist

00:39:52.660 or the dental hygienist says,

00:39:54.220 hey, how often are you flossing?

00:39:55.840 When was the last time you flossed?

00:39:57.160 And a lot of people say,

00:39:57.980 I don't know,

00:39:58.280 the last time you did it probably

00:39:59.440 was the last time I flossed.

00:40:00.360 I don't know, every so often.

00:40:01.620 And even when you do floss,

00:40:03.000 they'll say, oh, you're not doing it right.

00:40:04.760 And however you do it,

00:40:05.640 you end up, you're not doing it right.

00:40:06.780 So no, I haven't gone,

00:40:07.820 but you've guilted me into thinking

00:40:09.260 I probably should.

00:40:11.320 Maybe you'll be my dental hygienist.

00:40:12.800 I don't know where you're based,

00:40:13.800 but I can tell you are very based.

00:40:16.160 So maybe I'll have to look into that.

00:40:17.740 Next question.

00:40:19.260 Hey, Michael.

00:40:19.860 So my wife and I have been together

00:40:21.740 for about five years.

00:40:22.900 We have a 14-month-old daughter,

00:40:24.540 and my wife is eight months pregnant.

00:40:26.880 So my question is,

00:40:28.380 my mom is a very difficult person. 0.98

00:40:30.880 She's not respecting our rules. 0.84

00:40:32.400 My parents actually had to leave their church

00:40:35.180 because my mom got in a huge fight 0.99

00:40:37.920 with their pastor.

00:40:39.460 I've had about half a dozen talks,

00:40:41.920 and we even had a big three-hour sit-down

00:40:44.880 where I laid out certain rules,

00:40:46.620 but she's still ignoring our wishes 1.00

00:40:48.680 and doing things behind her back

00:40:50.720 with our daughter.

00:40:51.840 So at this point,

00:40:53.720 it feels like distance

00:40:55.720 is probably our best option.

00:40:57.820 However, my dad is 77,

00:41:00.820 so we're not sure how much time

00:41:02.940 we have left with him.

00:41:05.120 Do you have any suggestions

00:41:06.940 or perspectives that I'm missing?

00:41:08.840 I appreciate it.

00:41:09.880 Thanks.

00:41:10.920 First of all, these days, 77,

00:41:12.880 you're a young man.

00:41:13.800 77 is middle age these days,

00:41:15.600 so I hope you have time,

00:41:17.420 but you never know.

00:41:18.220 You never know.

00:41:18.620 Yes, some distance would be appropriate,

00:41:24.380 probably,

00:41:24.780 if your mother is doing things

00:41:28.680 with your children

00:41:29.260 that you don't approve of

00:41:30.220 and you're not comfortable with

00:41:31.420 and educating them in a way

00:41:32.700 that you're not comfortable with,

00:41:33.600 and you actually have an obligation

00:41:34.880 to make sure that you run interference there

00:41:40.220 and moderate that relationship.

00:41:42.320 But distance doesn't mean

00:41:43.480 you never see your parents

00:41:44.880 or anything like that.

00:41:45.660 It just might mean

00:41:46.420 that you don't let your mom 0.82

00:41:47.560 take the kids alone 1.00

00:41:48.640 to do whatever they do

00:41:51.060 that you're uncomfortable with.

00:41:53.180 Distance might mean

00:41:54.320 that maybe the girls

00:41:56.940 go out to lunch with grandpa

00:41:58.340 instead of with grandma

00:41:59.460 on Saturday afternoon.

00:42:01.860 Distance might mean

00:42:02.760 that you go over

00:42:03.780 and say hey to everybody

00:42:04.740 for an hour

00:42:05.500 instead of spending

00:42:07.220 three days with them.

00:42:11.860 Distance doesn't have to be 0.64

00:42:12.860 this dramatic kind of

00:42:14.000 blow-up sort of thing.

00:42:14.960 You just have to be prudent.

00:42:18.060 You just have to exercise

00:42:18.900 your judgment

00:42:19.640 and get the message across

00:42:22.340 to your mother 0.77

00:42:22.780 in a loving way.

00:42:23.660 You owe your mother

00:42:24.500 love and respect.

00:42:26.880 And that said,

00:42:28.720 if your mother is behaving

00:42:29.580 in a way that is irrational,

00:42:30.820 you have an obligation

00:42:31.460 to protect your children

00:42:32.860 and your family

00:42:34.260 from the consequences

00:42:35.800 of that irrational

00:42:37.660 and destructive behavior.

00:42:39.820 It's sort of like

00:42:40.940 if you're going to punish a child.

00:42:42.200 When you lay out

00:42:45.000 the punishment

00:42:45.440 for your child,

00:42:46.540 you should not be angry

00:42:47.840 while you do it.

00:42:49.120 You should do it

00:42:49.660 in a way that is level-headed

00:42:50.740 and so that you are

00:42:52.420 punishing your child

00:42:53.360 for the benefit

00:42:54.160 of that child

00:42:54.860 and for the purpose

00:42:55.720 of justice,

00:42:56.420 not as a way

00:42:58.000 of venting your emotions

00:42:59.260 or getting back

00:43:00.180 or feeling good

00:43:01.880 or something like that.

00:43:03.200 Same thing with your mother. 0.92

00:43:04.320 You don't need to blow up

00:43:05.500 with your mother

00:43:05.960 on the phone

00:43:06.460 and start yelling

00:43:07.040 and screaming.

00:43:07.540 You just have to say,

00:43:09.000 look, mom,

00:43:09.920 this is right

00:43:10.680 and here's wrong

00:43:11.400 and I know you're

00:43:12.700 going through something

00:43:13.260 right now

00:43:13.800 but I've got to be

00:43:15.160 responsible here

00:43:16.120 and just make sure

00:43:16.820 you can't do that

00:43:17.720 to my kid

00:43:18.340 and you can't lie to me

00:43:20.260 about,

00:43:21.460 again,

00:43:22.420 I don't know exactly

00:43:23.020 what the circumstance is

00:43:23.700 but you can't lie to me

00:43:24.580 about where you're

00:43:25.020 taking the children

00:43:25.660 or what you're teaching them

00:43:26.540 or whatever.

00:43:27.120 So we're going to just

00:43:28.100 have to put some more

00:43:28.840 safeguards in place here

00:43:30.100 so that you don't do that,

00:43:31.640 mom.

00:43:31.900 Nothing against you

00:43:32.660 but we have a responsibility

00:43:33.800 to our family.

00:43:35.380 Okay, next question.

00:43:36.000 Hey Michael,

00:43:37.500 you recently were talking

00:43:38.460 with Tim Poole

00:43:39.160 about transgenderism

00:43:40.480 and Tim Poole

00:43:41.700 brought up the idea

00:43:42.440 of what if we just create

00:43:43.640 new sports leagues

00:43:44.820 just for transgenders

00:43:45.880 and other such proposals

00:43:47.680 with bathrooms

00:43:48.300 and things like that

00:43:49.060 so that we can get around

00:43:50.080 them invading women's spaces. 0.96

00:43:52.020 I think this is

00:43:52.820 a really bad idea.

00:43:53.800 I think it's a dangerous

00:43:54.540 half measure

00:43:55.100 for one very simple reason

00:43:57.220 and I'd like to get

00:43:57.740 your thoughts.

00:43:59.160 Transgenderism, 0.70

00:43:59.800 just like any other

00:44:00.680 leftist movement,

00:44:01.680 is all about

00:44:02.380 transgressing

00:44:03.140 traditional norms

00:44:04.460 and if they don't

00:44:05.900 have those

00:44:06.300 traditional norms

00:44:06.980 to transgress

00:44:07.680 they will claim

00:44:08.220 to be oppressed.

00:44:09.740 The whole point

00:44:10.460 is to live

00:44:11.360 under traditional society,

00:44:13.620 live with traditional society

00:44:14.960 without having to

00:44:16.460 abide by its rules.

00:44:18.100 So what they do

00:44:18.800 is they corrupt

00:44:19.740 traditional norms,

00:44:21.520 they retain their appearance

00:44:23.180 in their shell

00:44:23.800 and they get rid

00:44:25.360 of their substance

00:44:26.080 and imperatives.

00:44:27.880 That is all of leftism.

00:44:29.740 So they will claim

00:44:30.660 to be oppressed

00:44:31.200 if they don't have

00:44:32.000 these spaces,

00:44:32.980 traditional spaces

00:44:33.700 to invade.

00:44:34.820 I would love to hear

00:44:35.560 your thoughts on this.

00:44:36.260 Thank you.

00:44:37.140 A really great point

00:44:38.260 and even more basically

00:44:40.240 the reason that

00:44:41.720 well let's just add

00:44:42.640 three more bathrooms 0.98

00:44:43.380 or let's just build

00:44:44.260 ten more sports leagues

00:44:45.260 is a bad idea

00:44:46.160 is because

00:44:47.280 it buys into

00:44:48.880 the leftist,

00:44:50.000 the liberal

00:44:50.620 desire

00:44:53.120 to transcend

00:44:54.680 all limits.

00:44:56.780 Conservatives recognize

00:44:57.820 that society,

00:45:00.860 human life,

00:45:01.620 everything in this

00:45:03.220 finite world

00:45:03.840 necessarily has limits

00:45:05.480 and is defined

00:45:06.480 by its limits

00:45:07.360 and the liberals

00:45:08.900 include the progressive liberals

00:45:10.400 and the classical liberals

00:45:11.840 and all the kinds

00:45:13.280 of liberals

00:45:13.800 want to liberate themselves

00:45:15.900 from all of those limits

00:45:17.220 but when we liberate ourselves

00:45:19.260 from all of our limits

00:45:20.260 we destroy ourselves.

00:45:22.020 We're left with nothing.

00:45:23.360 When you liberate yourself

00:45:24.560 from the limits

00:45:25.480 of your own body

00:45:26.260 and biology

00:45:26.900 you kill yourself

00:45:27.860 either in the figurative way, 0.97

00:45:29.180 the ritual way

00:45:30.120 of the transgender transition

00:45:31.780 which leaves

00:45:32.500 one's identity

00:45:33.820 as a dead name.

00:45:35.360 That's literally

00:45:35.960 how they refer to it

00:45:36.980 or literally

00:45:38.360 in the kind of

00:45:40.360 Robin Williams suicide

00:45:42.060 the Oscars tweets out

00:45:44.000 Genie you're free 0.95

00:45:45.040 this idea that 1.00

00:45:45.660 if you kill yourself

00:45:46.480 you're somehow 0.87

00:45:47.140 liberating yourself

00:45:48.280 from the constraints

00:45:49.020 of the physical world.

00:45:50.820 You see this in a lot

00:45:51.360 of the arguments

00:45:51.880 over euthanasia right now

00:45:54.200 and quote unquote

00:45:55.400 euthanasia

00:45:56.000 medically assisted dying.

00:45:57.240 So that's wrong

00:45:59.800 the idea that

00:46:00.400 well the problem is just

00:46:01.860 we have too many limits

00:46:02.640 on bathrooms

00:46:03.180 let's just add a new one

00:46:04.160 and a new one

00:46:04.680 and a new one

00:46:05.120 no.

00:46:06.740 Men and women are different 1.00

00:46:07.840 the difference between

00:46:08.500 men and women

00:46:08.980 defines society

00:46:10.860 that limit defines society

00:46:12.260 just as our national border

00:46:13.460 defines the limit

00:46:14.320 of our nation

00:46:14.980 and so we're going to

00:46:16.480 recognize that limit

00:46:18.720 we're going to

00:46:19.480 celebrate that limit

00:46:20.640 that's what makes us

00:46:22.220 us

00:46:22.680 just as the meter

00:46:23.920 and the rhyme scheme

00:46:24.840 makes the sonnet

00:46:25.800 the sonnet

00:46:26.420 without which it becomes

00:46:27.340 slam poetry

00:46:28.060 which is the death

00:46:28.820 of art.

00:46:29.800 No limits are good

00:46:31.040 embrace them

00:46:31.900 embrace the no

00:46:33.860 no

00:46:35.140 is a very

00:46:36.520 liberating word

00:46:38.100 now we've got

00:46:39.520 a lot to get to

00:46:40.160 Mr. Davies tells me

00:46:41.180 I come into the office

00:46:42.020 today

00:46:42.280 I haven't slept

00:46:44.660 all week

00:46:45.160 I've been traveling

00:46:45.820 all over the country

00:46:46.720 I'm bleary eyed

00:46:49.900 okay

00:46:50.160 and Mr. Davies

00:46:51.260 says

00:46:51.560 Michael

00:46:52.280 because I

00:46:54.160 Ben Davies

00:46:55.260 have screwed up

00:46:56.100 member blocks

00:46:56.660 so much this week

00:46:57.560 by not giving you

00:46:59.040 your beloved iPad

00:46:59.860 we're going to fit in

00:47:01.140 like three member blocks

00:47:02.820 in one today

00:47:03.480 I'm very excited for that

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 21, 2023

Ep. 1230 - Anti-White Trend Has Hit The Absurd Levels

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