The Michael Knowles Show - May 03, 2023


Ep. 1238 - Pornhub Officially Went Too Far


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Porn is banned in Utah, a middle schooler gives oratory, and the U.S. Navy is trying to get new sailors into the service by recruiting a drag queen. But is this a good or bad thing?

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00:00:00.000 If you're a pervert in the state of Utah, I've got some bad news. 1.00
00:00:04.060 No more porn. Utahans are losing their porn privileges, not because the state has banned 0.98
00:00:10.640 porn, but because Pornhub, the largest porn website online, has banned Utah.
00:00:16.940 And why did Pornhub ban Utah? Because Utah told Pornhub that they had to stop selling
00:00:23.880 their smut to kids. That, apparently, was too much of an ask for Pornhub.
00:00:30.000 So a day before this new age requirement law went into effect, a law passed unanimously
00:00:35.720 by state legislators, obviously, since only weirdos and creeps actively promote porn to
00:00:42.160 kids, Pornhub shut down access to their website in the state, which tells you a lot about Pornhub.
00:00:49.700 It tells you that Pornhub doesn't just serve its content to minors. It relies on serving
00:00:57.840 its content to minors. And it relies on minors viewing it not only because young people are
00:01:04.960 walking bags of hormones and are very likely to look at that kind of material, but also because 1.00
00:01:10.840 young people have a harder time controlling themselves. And like cigarette companies back
00:01:16.060 in the day, Pornhub knows that if they can hook people while they're young, the majority of young
00:01:20.820 people today are exposed to porn by age 12, some much younger. If they can hook people while they're
00:01:26.000 young, it's going to be much harder to break the addiction. There are basically two side effects
00:01:32.380 of smoking cigarettes, lung problems and looking cool. Not saying that the latter justifies the
00:01:39.760 former. The lung problems are very bad. That is why cigarettes, unlike porn, are heavily regulated.
00:01:44.800 There are basically two side effects of porn, too. Turning people into perverts and turning their
00:01:51.080 brains to mush. That means things like skyrocketing rates of sexual dysfunction among young men, 1.00
00:01:57.340 disordered desires, ruined relationships. And unlike with cigarettes, with porn, you don't even
00:02:03.400 get to look cool while you do it. You just look like a loser and you become depressed and you write 1.00
00:02:08.700 into my mailbag on Fridays, desperate to break an addiction, peddled by a company that for all 1.00
00:02:13.940 intents and purposes is now admitted to preying on kids. Cigarettes can destroy people's bodies.
00:02:21.700 Porn can destroy the body, mind, and soul. We have been noticing much more clearly lately how bad
00:02:29.600 people in politics are targeting minors. The activists trying to trans your kids. The educators
00:02:36.140 pushing gay porn in elementary school libraries. Transgenderism is a $1.9 billion a year industry. 0.99
00:02:42.620 Even with all of its growth as a social contagion in recent years, that is relatively small potatoes.
00:02:49.100 Porn is a $100 billion a year industry. You want to stem the tide of social decay? You want to protect
00:02:56.360 young people? Then every Republican governor should follow Utah's lead and prohibit Pornhub from 0.59
00:03:02.920 targeting its most valued customers. Your kids. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:12.620 Welcome back to the show. Speaking of the Utes, there is a middle schooler in Massachusetts who has
00:03:24.180 just given oratory, the finest sort of oratory I've probably heard since Pericles, at least in terms of
00:03:31.360 its urgency and how articulate this kid is when he's describing a major problem in schools. We'll get to
00:03:37.200 that in one second. It's really, really great stuff. First though, I don't want to totally move on from
00:03:42.280 the weird sex stuff. I mean, I do. Socially, I would like us to move on from the weird sex stuff,
00:03:46.540 but we can't move on from it in the news because it's everywhere. It's not just in the bowels of the
00:03:51.240 internet. It's not just shady people with dodgy companies. It's in the government. It's in the U.S.
00:03:57.600 military. The United States Navy has just launched a new recruitment campaign. I guess they didn't
00:04:05.180 pay any attention to the lessons of Bud Light. They've launched a new recruitment campaign
00:04:11.100 that tries to get new sailors by promoting drag. 0.99
00:04:16.780 You can see there's this active duty sailor. He's a drag queen. He's not exactly a transgender. He's 0.61
00:04:32.960 a full over-the-top drag queen. 24-year-old Joshua Kelly performs under the alter ego Harpy Daniels.
00:04:42.300 And video going around right now of some of his performances that he's posted.
00:04:46.780 While serving as his squadron's administrative supervisor, Kelly's shows are part of lip-sync
00:04:53.800 competitions. He's very, very different. There he is in a dress. They're supposed to boost
00:05:02.920 morale. Not sure. Okay, I've seen enough of the drag queen sailor. Now, you would think this 1.00
00:05:12.760 would not necessarily boost morale among servicemen. However, there have long been
00:05:19.340 sort of jokes about the Navy. And I guess this is really my problem with the new drag recruitment 1.00
00:05:26.780 tool is not that it's decadent and debauched and counterproductive. My problem with the new drag 0.97
00:05:34.720 recruitment initiative from the Navy is that it's just a waste of money because the Navy already had
00:05:40.940 very, very high quality recruitment materials in this vein going back to the 1970s.
00:05:47.520 And I love the Navy was really leading the charge with that recruitment tool because the Navy,
00:06:14.800 obviously, was the front man for it. But you had all the branches of the military. You had the
00:06:20.560 cowboys. You had the Indians. You had the construction workers. I assume also the Army and the Marines and 0.91
00:06:28.880 the Air Force and the Coast Guard somewhere back there. Look, Navy, if you want to double down
00:06:38.380 on these kinds of things, that's fine. And a lot of people are going to joke and they're going to use
00:06:44.240 that apocryphal quote from Winston Churchill, which is that naval tradition is nothing but rum,
00:06:48.980 sodomy, and the lash, which is a funny quote, even though Churchill never said it. But notice the
00:06:54.420 difference. Back in the 70s, back at every time in history before now, the Navy had this kind of joke
00:07:03.620 about it, which was that it attracted guys who were a little bit light in the loafers, okay? And that
00:07:07.920 was the joke. And in those days, the sailors would push back on that joke. That was the joke and they'd
00:07:15.380 say, how dare you? That's not what we're like. Get out of here. Shut up. You're a jerk. Whatever.
00:07:19.780 You know, you'd push back. Today, the Navy is totally embracing that and they're using that as a
00:07:25.800 recruitment tool. It's an inversion of society, the likes of which we're seeing in every other
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00:09:02.060 this story has not gotten nearly enough attention and it is delightful. Noam Chomsky is, at this point,
00:09:11.320 I think about a thousand years old. He is a celebrated linguist, but more than he is known
00:09:16.280 for his linguistic scholarly work, he is known for being the preeminent public intellectual on the left.
00:09:23.840 And he's always sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong. And he's always pontificating about
00:09:27.340 all matters of politics and economics. And he's a pretty interesting linguist. He's actually had
00:09:34.520 somewhat interesting things to say on politics and economics, but very, very much a man of the left.
00:09:39.880 And some might say sanctimonious about his politics. Well, it turns out something we've
00:09:47.880 learned from the trials surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is that Noam Chomsky was buddies with Jeffrey
00:09:54.920 Epstein. Wall Street Journal discovered this and they reached out to Professor Chomsky for comment.
00:09:59.440 His response was, first response is that it is none of your business or anyone's. Second is that I knew
00:10:09.880 him and we met occasionally. Kind of a defensive response because a lot of people knew Jeffrey
00:10:17.280 Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was clearly a political operative. He was very, very wealthy. He invited
00:10:23.480 lots of fancy people to all of his parties. So one could very easily say, oh yes, I met him.
00:10:27.740 We were raising money for MIT, which is where Chomsky teaches, or we were raising money for
00:10:32.700 this cause or that cause. And so yes, we had some dinners. It's no big deal.
00:10:36.840 But he doesn't say it. He says, yeah, it's none of your business. Yeah, I know. And we met. We met
00:10:40.360 sometimes. 2015, we know from the flight schedules, Epstein was scheduled to fly with Chomsky and his wife
00:10:48.500 to have dinner with them as well as Woody Allen and his wife. Not a great look. If you're hanging out
00:10:56.800 with a guy who is known to have preyed on minors for sex, not great to simultaneously be hanging out 0.71
00:11:05.580 with a guy whose reputation is that he has a sexual obsession with minors. Chomsky was asked about this.
00:11:11.260 He goes, if there was a flight, which I doubt it would have been from Boston to New York,
00:11:14.780 30 minutes. I'm unaware of the principle that requires I inform you about an evening spent
00:11:19.020 with a great artist. Now, what's also weird is Chomsky hung out with Epstein after Epstein was
00:11:26.920 convicted of the child sex stuff. So he says, what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had
00:11:31.300 been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to US laws and norms, that yields a
00:11:35.480 clean state. Lots of other Epstein associates had an excuse. This Noam Chomsky one, this fails on every
00:11:43.120 level. It was after the sex crime convictions. He's now trying to excuse the sex crime convictions.
00:11:49.440 He's hanging out with other odd characters. He apparently did it a lot of times.
00:11:57.040 The establishment is trying to sweep this under the rug. And we like to think, oh, well,
00:12:03.420 it was just some people in high positions of power. No, it's all of it. Even Noam Chomsky,
00:12:10.460 who has a reputation of being sort of above it all. He's a radical leftist. The liberal
00:12:14.240 establishment doesn't like him very much. No, they're all just kind of in it together.
00:12:21.700 I'm not even that interested in Noam Chomsky in himself or the Jeffrey Epstein story in itself.
00:12:27.880 I'm interested in what it says about the whole power structure in the US.
00:12:31.620 There aren't lots of tiny little factions and, oh, the Chomsky type people, they don't like Joe Biden
00:12:38.020 and they don't, and Biden, he doesn't like this faction. No, the liberal establishment
00:12:42.000 is pretty solid. And even though they don't have necessarily the majority of the country in terms of
00:12:49.940 the people who live here, who are citizens, they've got a lot of the power and they do a lot of dodgy
00:12:55.040 stuff and they don't think they need to answer questions from anybody and they don't have to pay
00:12:59.120 any consequences. Speaking of leaks, a ton of leaked footage about Tucker Carlson and it's obviously
00:13:06.740 coming from Fox. I don't see who else could possibly be leaking this footage. And they're
00:13:10.620 doing a little drip, drip, drip campaign to try to tarnish Tucker's reputation in the wake of his
00:13:16.740 pseudo firing. I think he's still on the Fox payroll, but they're just trying to shut him up.
00:13:21.080 More on that in a second. So what have they got on Tucker? Let's see, what's the best stuff
00:13:26.400 that the people who want to take Tucker down have on him?
00:13:30.060 I don't want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don't think that would be able to watch anyway.
00:13:35.160 We're gonna, because I, you know, I'm like a representative of the American media now.
00:13:41.480 Speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.
00:13:46.660 I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show and I want it to look official. I don't want it to be like bro talk.
00:14:14.540 And I, and I, you know what I mean?
00:14:18.120 Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's gonna be for Fox Nation.
00:14:22.460 But nobody's gonna watch it on Fox Nation. Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks. 0.98
00:14:27.300 So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on. 0.96
00:14:29.620 So this, this is supposed to be the smoking gun. Tucker Carlson, he doesn't even believe in his
00:14:36.200 own product. He's, he's bashing his employers. What Tucker is doing here is what any good media
00:14:42.040 person would do, which is he's saying, I have a responsibility to my audience.
00:14:46.040 I want the product that we're putting out to be better.
00:14:49.840 Every, everyone around the Daily Wire has said something like this at some point,
00:14:54.460 including the founders and owners of the Daily Wire has said something like this at some point
00:14:59.520 when we want to improve an aspect of our product.
00:15:03.220 No one obviously has ever said it about my show because the show can't be improved,
00:15:07.080 but the rest of the products at the Daily Wire, people will say, look, I, you know,
00:15:10.600 we have a responsibility to our audience and this part of the website isn't working that well
00:15:14.460 and you got to fix it up. So that's, oh, bell, big smoking gun. Okay. What else do they have on
00:15:18.400 Tucker? It will do it live. Love that one. That one's my favorite one. They leaked shocking
00:15:25.600 footage from Tucker. Tucker Carlson is what making a joke about a thing that Bill O'Reilly once said
00:15:32.280 in anger on the air. Every one of these clips is just making Tucker look better. Every one of these
00:15:38.220 makes him look more relatable. He's speaking very politely and comedically with his staff.
00:15:44.680 And, but then, okay, here's the big one. They're really excited about this one.
00:15:47.840 The people who are leaking this have found footage of Tucker, according to Media Matters,
00:15:55.160 acting really, really creepy. Here it is.
00:15:58.420 You wouldn't, okay. I'm not, you know what? I'm not qualified on that score, I will say.
00:16:02.100 I thought his girlfriend was kind of yummy. Just kidding. Just kidding in case this is being
00:16:08.580 pulled off the bird. Yeah, the bird. Hey, Media Matters for America. Go f**k yourself. That's the
00:16:17.260 first thing I want to say tonight. Second thing is totally kidding. I don't even know what his
00:16:20.880 girlfriend looks like. And if I did, I would not find her yummy. And if I did, I would not find her 0.93
00:16:26.680 yummy. That's a great bit. That's a great bit. It's not, there's nothing creepy. There's nothing
00:16:31.820 lecherous. He's joking about this as if it's on camera. But okay, the one that, the one that
00:16:36.320 they're focusing on is they say, I've got proof Tucker's a racist. And it's because there's a
00:16:39.960 text that Tucker sent. He says, a couple of weeks ago, I was watching a video of people fighting on
00:16:43.680 the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding
00:16:47.500 the living SHIT out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is 1.00
00:16:51.780 dishonorable, obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the 0.95
00:16:56.460 mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. 1.00
00:17:00.460 I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off. This isn't good for me.
00:17:04.460 I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise
00:17:08.580 what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over
00:17:12.640 his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this
00:17:16.320 kid and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don't care about those things, if I reduce people
00:17:20.760 to their politics, how am I better than he is? The only takeaway I have from this text
00:17:28.700 is that Tucker Carlson is a much more thoughtful human person than 99.9% of people in politics and
00:17:37.220 media. Tucker Carlson is recognizing a mimetic response that he has that we all have watching
00:17:47.840 social media, which is that we want to join the mob. We want to join in a war of all against all
00:17:51.640 and just murder somebody. It excites our anger and our envy and all the worst aspects of our
00:17:58.060 character so much that we want to do that. And he became aware of it and said, this isn't good for
00:18:01.140 me. Is this the best they've got? This is the best. Keep leaking like this. Keep trying to
00:18:08.920 destroy Tucker's reputation like this. You're going to make him even more powerful than he was
00:18:12.300 when he was at Fox. So what are they going to try to do? They're going to try to sideline him for 2024.
00:18:16.800 According to reports, according to the Wall Street Journal also, Tucker might have 18 months left on
00:18:23.520 his contract, which means that if they just continue to pay him, right now I think they're
00:18:27.840 paying him $1.6 million a month to do nothing, to sit at home. If they just continue to pay him,
00:18:35.460 he'll finish out his contract. And then after 2024, he gets to speak again. Meaning Tucker is so
00:18:41.200 dangerous to the liberal establishment that they are willing to pay him $20 million not to speak.
00:18:49.560 What does that tell you about Tucker, who is a little more independent? It's not like he's some
00:18:54.940 fringe guy far from it. He's extremely mainstream. He's just a touch more independent than other people
00:18:59.420 in the media. What does that tell you about Tucker? What does that tell you about everyone else
00:19:03.540 in the establishment TV news media? That they all get to have their shows. They all get to say what
00:19:10.500 they like. And then Tucker steps out of line a little bit much. They'll pay him $20 million just
00:19:14.740 to shut up before the presidential election. Speaking of that presidential election, we have got
00:19:20.680 one fewer candidate in the race in 2024, at least for this year. A lot of people have been waiting
00:19:29.280 for Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to declare. And Youngkin says he is not going to run this year.
00:19:36.920 He was asked, are you going to be dusting off that fleece jacket and getting out on the presidential
00:19:40.560 campaign trail this year? And Youngkin says, no, I'm going to be working in Virginia this year.
00:19:46.480 So then, see, this year, what does this year mean? The interviewer presses him and says,
00:19:50.320 so in the words of LBJ, you will not seek and if nominated, you will not serve and accept the
00:19:53.800 Republican nomination for president of the United States. And what does Youngkin say? He says,
00:19:58.680 we'll leave that one to LBJ. What I'm very excited about is that America seems to be paying
00:20:03.520 attention to what's going on in Virginia, which means he's leaving himself wiggle room. But
00:20:09.780 for all intents and purposes, he's out of the race. Because even if he waited until January
00:20:15.580 1st, 2024, so he can say, this year, I'm not running, but next year, maybe I will.
00:20:19.980 If he started then, barring some global event, barring a comet coming down and taking out Trump,
00:20:28.600 DeSantis, I don't know, Pence, Haley, Vivek, Tim Scott, all of the candidates, barring that,
00:20:35.820 Youngkin would come in at such a disadvantage because he had not been running for as long.
00:20:39.520 This effectively ends his presidential speculation, which means some of the top tier not Trump
00:20:46.740 candidates, Cruz, Pompeo, Glenn Youngkin now, they're out. They're choosing not to run.
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00:22:22.540 You know, it seems as if fewer of us are on the same page when it comes to the fundamentals of life.
00:22:27.040 And this is obviously a huge problem when it comes to our relationship to each other and our
00:22:32.060 relationship to God. But this is not a new phenomenon. The consequences of this disunity
00:22:36.800 date back all the way to the time of Moses. Just listen to what Jordan Peterson has to say about it
00:22:42.700 in Exodus. There's an irony here that for all the insistence upon equality, the very foundation for
00:22:54.300 that equality in Western culture. The idea that human beings are made in the imago Dei in the image
00:23:01.700 of God has been lost, of course. So it's almost as if because of the erosion of this foundation,
00:23:09.320 the drive for equality is stressed all the more.
00:23:13.240 That's exactly what Nietzsche claimed would happen when he wrote, well, when he's particularly in
00:23:19.860 Beyond Good and Evil. He said that was an inevitable, that would be an inevitable consequence.
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00:23:48.200 Morning consult poll on the Republican primary 2024. I'll start from the bottom to the top.
00:23:56.400 Kristi Noem, 1%. Tim Scott, 2%. Liz Cheney, 2%. Liz Cheney, what? Vivek, 3%. Nikki Haley, 4%. Pence, 7%.
00:24:08.560 And we bump up to Ron DeSantis, 22%. Very respectable in this field. Then we get to Trump,
00:24:17.020 56%. Which means that not only is Trump dominating the field, he is winning a clear majority of Republican
00:24:28.200 primary voters. That's a national poll, so you've got to dig in a little bit more. Well, how's he doing
00:24:32.580 in Iowa? How's he doing in New Hampshire? Right. Still, dominating means he's 34 points above the
00:24:39.980 number two guy in the race. And crucially, his numbers are going up. And the other guy's numbers
00:24:46.860 are going down. I know it's early. I know there's going to be a campaign. I know Governor DeSantis has
00:24:54.680 not declared yet. Maybe those numbers start to change. But the race is already on. You're already
00:25:00.160 seeing attack ads against Trump. You're already seeing Trump spend a lot of time attacking Ron
00:25:04.100 DeSantis. DeSantis has a big war chest. He's going to have to spend a lot of that war chest to try to
00:25:10.720 knock Trump's numbers down. But can you knock down 34 points? Can you knock down the incumbent with
00:25:18.000 universal name recognition for 40 years? Once you declare that you are running at the end of this
00:25:24.800 month? Maybe it could happen. My main takeaway from this is that today, the year of our Lord,
00:25:34.040 2023, seven, eight years after Trump came down the golden escalator, people still underestimate
00:25:43.220 Donald Trump. Even people on the right that keeps, oh, Trump is finished. Oh, yeah, stick a fork in him.
00:25:50.100 He's done. Oh, Mueller is going to take him out. Oh, Hillary is going to take him out. Oh, this guy, 0.70
00:25:59.140 that guy, this guy. Ron DeSantis is going to take him out. Or if there's another candidate who pops
00:26:05.260 up, that person is going to take him out. Maybe it can happen. But Trump keeps outfoxing a lot of
00:26:14.860 people. And people forget, in Republican primary races in particular, we forget how much these
00:26:22.720 things change. In 2016, Governor Scott Walker was the leading candidate heading into the primaries.
00:26:31.160 And then Governor Walker, because he's a sensible man, a wise man with good judgment,
00:26:37.780 he saw when his numbers started to go in the wrong direction, and he saw that there was not a path to
00:26:41.680 victory. He was the first guy out. He said, okay, this isn't going to work. I'm going to do the
00:26:46.780 responsible thing. I'm not going to drag this out longer than it should be. He had more sense than a
00:26:50.460 lot of people in the Republican establishment, a lot of other people trying to run for office.
00:26:57.260 Are we seeing the same thing now? I don't know. I wouldn't count Trump out, guys. I wouldn't
00:27:00.680 underestimate him. I know that the entire punditariat, even on the right, focuses on how Trump,
00:27:06.860 he's toast, he's finished. The numbers don't bear that out. And there's a big chasm between what the
00:27:12.980 Republican geniuses from Washington, D.C. and the consultants and the pundits and the operatives and
00:27:17.940 what they all say and what actual Republican primary voters think and do. Speaking of men of a certain
00:27:24.480 age, a 70-year-old bearded man has just smashed through the glass ceiling. This man just won
00:27:34.500 a major ladies' poker competition, and we have some of it on video.
00:27:39.620 We have Dave here, and he, I don't know if you can tell here, he's the only guy in this ladies' 1.00
00:27:46.360 event. So I put a $300 bounty on his head, and then Tamara and her husband matched it. So there's
00:27:54.880 a $600 bounty on his head. He's already busted twice, so we love him for that. Thank you, Dave.
00:28:01.780 Good luck. Not really.
00:28:06.540 And then the person in filming walks away. And this bearded dude, he just looks up. He's like,
00:28:10.540 hey, yeah, what's up? What's going on? Okay, you're all trying to take me out. Whatever. I'm
00:28:13.920 still going to win the poker competition. Love this story. Not because I want to see a man beat 0.99
00:28:20.780 the ladies at ladies' poker, but just as a reminder that sexual difference isn't just about track races 1.00
00:28:27.280 and volleyball games. We focus now on the injustice of transgenderism by saying, you know, the men are 1.00
00:28:34.780 beating up the women in wrestling and volleyball, and the men are getting undressed in the women's 0.79
00:28:41.900 locker room, and the men are faster than women, so they win all the track races, and they win all 0.93
00:28:45.300 the swim meets. And yeah, that's true. They also win the poker tournaments because men are better than 0.95
00:28:50.600 women at poker. That's why men are much, much more likely to play poker than women. This is why men 0.98
00:28:56.220 are more likely to win more money in poker than women. They're better at poker. Why are they better 1.00
00:29:01.280 at poker? I don't know. I'm not going to venture any guesses. I'm no expert on this. I'm no expert
00:29:05.100 on neuroscience. I'm no expert on chemistry, the kind of, I don't know, the kind of hormones surging
00:29:11.480 through one's body when one's playing a hand. I'm no expert on poker. I just know men are much
00:29:18.320 better at poker than women. The differences between men and women are not, as even many people
00:29:23.400 on the right sometimes think, just one or two things. They're kind of superficial. They matter.
00:29:27.360 We should respect them, but it's not that. Men and women are very, very different. We're from the same
00:29:33.260 species. That's pretty much where the similarities end. That's why we're complementary. That's why we go
00:29:40.000 together. We're different. You can't list in some rationalist, modern, reductive way the five
00:29:49.640 differences between men and women. There are so many differences. Vive la différence. This is 0.98
00:29:55.560 something we used to love. We used to wonder at the myriad ways in which men and women are different.
00:30:01.520 Now, even people on the right are trying to reduce it to, well, we have these chromosomes and you have
00:30:05.720 those chromosomes. Well, women have uterus. Men have penis or something. That's way deeper than that. 0.84
00:30:14.680 This is something where the transgender people are right when they say gender is about so much more 1.00
00:30:18.800 than XY chromosomes. Yeah, that's true. It's a ton more. You can't change your sex. You're born with 0.99
00:30:24.800 it and that's your natural real sex and that's how it's going to be and you can put on a dress. It's not 0.96
00:30:28.100 going to change anything. But it is very different. And so we can't just say, okay,
00:30:33.140 we'll affirm transgenderism in this arena because sexual difference doesn't matter here, but we'll
00:30:39.900 reject it in this other arena, in swim meets, because sexual difference does matter there. No,
00:30:43.440 it just matters. It matters kind of like everywhere. And we should acknowledge that and embrace that,
00:30:49.720 which means that you can't just try to tweak transgenderism in one or two areas. It means you have to,
00:30:54.200 to use a pithy phrase, eradicate the whole ideology from public life, which is starting to happen.
00:31:01.020 You're seeing the Montana GOP just banned trans procedures for minors. Governor just signed this
00:31:08.700 into law, Senate Bill 99 known as the Youth Health Protection Act. Great slam dunk. Love it. Glad we're
00:31:16.840 protecting the kids from this stuff. My question then is when is a Republican governor, when are
00:31:22.160 Republican legislators going to ban this for adults? Because not only would it be good to ban it
00:31:30.960 for adults because the transgender transition procedures are just quackery and butchery and 1.00
00:31:36.280 terrible for everybody because they're not grounded in reality and they're medical malpractice.
00:31:41.600 And they are deepening the delusions of disturbed people. But also, even if you're just focused on the
00:31:48.740 kids, if you don't ban these kinds of surgeries and butcheries for adults, they will inevitably be done to
00:31:57.380 kids. Because if you establish them for adults, what you're saying is it is possible to be born in the
00:32:03.640 wrong body. What you're saying is it is possible to change your sex, even though it's not. By 0.86
00:32:08.520 establishing that for adults, you are affirming that, which creates scandal. Scandal is a stumbling
00:32:15.220 block. Scandal is when you have a belief and then you encounter a stumbling block and that leads you
00:32:22.460 down a wrong path. And it will scandalize, it does scandalize young people to see that.
00:32:29.660 If your government, if your politics says this thing is true for people from the ages of 18 until
00:32:36.400 118, then young people are going to look at that just like they look at mommy and daddy and they want
00:32:42.060 to do what mommy and daddy do and they want to think what mommy and daddy think. They're going to look
00:32:45.520 at that and say, okay, I guess you can change your sex. And if you think that as a young person,
00:32:51.820 you're much more likely to fall into the transgender idea. And so either you'll become 0.98
00:32:56.220 very, very confused, wait till you're 18 to butcher yourself, or more likely you will force the adults 0.73
00:33:02.160 to follow their ideas to their logical conclusions and say, okay, if we're saying for the vast majority
00:33:06.400 of people, they can change their sex, they can be born into the wrong body, then we should do that 1.00
00:33:11.000 for the young people too. In fact, it would be cruel not to trans the kids before they've gone 0.93
00:33:15.420 through puberty when it's much easier to appear more like the opposite sex. Great job. Good job, 1.00
00:33:23.000 Montana. Now follow your ideas to their logical conclusions. Get the job done. Ban this stuff
00:33:29.320 for everybody. It's going to be hard to do that though, because we have another transurrection.
00:33:34.160 We had another transurrection down in Texas. It's not an insurrection when the libs do it.
00:33:40.280 So when the libs go in and invade a statehouse and start screaming and disrupting legislative 0.95
00:33:46.140 procedures and waving their crazy flags and hooting and hollering, that's totally fine.
00:33:52.880 And they've done it at statehouse after statehouse after statehouse. Sometimes like in my own state
00:33:57.140 of Tennessee, they've been invited in by the legislators and they scream and they holler and
00:34:00.780 they disrupt. That's totally fine. But when granny takes a selfie in the Capitol rotunda on January 6th, 0.99
00:34:06.000 she's pretty much Osama bin Laden. Send her to Gitmo and waterboard her. We need to find out what she 1.00
00:34:10.120 knows. Right? And that's what they're going to do. They're going to continue to threaten violence
00:34:16.080 again and again and again. What will this bill do in Texas? Senate Bill 14 would prohibit trans youth,
00:34:27.340 trans youth is how it's being reported, from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapy,
00:34:31.700 care that medical groups say is vital to their mental health in order to transition.
00:34:36.660 Trans kids, you know that totally real category of people? Totally real, because that's what the
00:34:42.160 journalists say is true. Who are already accessing these treatments for gender-affirming purposes 0.96
00:34:46.360 would have to be weaned off in a medically appropriate manner. The bill would also prohibit
00:34:51.640 transition-related surgeries, though these are rarely performed on kids. I love they say that.
00:34:55.000 Chopping kids' genitals off? Well, that's rarely performed on kids. Hold on, 0.99
00:34:59.020 so you're admitting it is performed on kids. It's very rare that we chop off the phallus and
00:35:04.460 the breasts and all sorts of things on little children. One time seems like a lot, man. Well,
00:35:12.580 that's very rare. Don't worry.
00:35:13.640 The only solution is to eradicate this ideology from public life and from its establishment in
00:35:22.500 the law. It's the only solution. Well, it's a little less rare. It's a little less rarely
00:35:28.960 performed on kids these days. Okay, it's performed on kids, but we only do it to kids starting at age
00:35:33.460 four. Well, we only do it to kids starting at age three. Well, and then the moment you push back on
00:35:38.620 it, you're going to have these lunatics run into your Capitol and start screaming and hooting and 0.96
00:35:42.140 hollering and intimidating legislators. You've just got to say no. Embrace the no. No is a beautiful 0.98
00:35:47.820 word in politics. No is a beautiful word in life. It keeps you from doing bad things that you might
00:35:55.160 be tempted to do. It keeps your society from devolving into chaos and anarchy. Embrace the no.
00:36:01.740 It's nice. You'll lead a much better life. You'll have a lot more yes if you embrace the no.
00:36:05.980 I don't, I don't. And by the way, speaking of no, no, I do not want to hear any peep again if
00:36:13.520 Republicans get a little feisty in politics. The libs burn down the country for eight months with
00:36:18.280 BLM. They've been invading statehouse after statehouse, screaming and hooting and hollering 1.00
00:36:22.120 and scaring the justices. I don't want to hear anything next time the lectern guy shows up and
00:36:26.900 takes a picture in the Capitol rotunda and the horn hat guy gets a private tour from the Capitol
00:36:31.120 police. I don't want to hear boo about it. Certainly not from the libs, though I don't
00:36:35.540 really pay attention to their talking points, but I don't want to hear it from the squishes either. 1.00
00:36:39.540 Give me a break. Okay. These are fundamental issues. The libs are engaging in virtually all
00:36:46.540 of the political violence in the United States. I don't want to hear any, well, you know, if you look
00:36:51.100 at both sides, there's no both sides here. One side is chopping off the genitals of kids. One side 0.99
00:36:55.680 isn't. One side is invading the state houses of every state that's trying to do something about
00:37:01.120 it. The other side isn't. I don't want to hear about it. Okay. Okay. I do want to hear from you,
00:37:06.860 though, which is why you got to send me a voice mailbag this week. How do you do it? Very simple.
00:37:11.120 You go to dailyware.com. You go to the Michael Knowles show page. So you click on watch and you
00:37:16.700 click on the Michael Knowles show and you click on mailbag and it'll open up an email and you can record
00:37:21.880 your voice mailbag question on your phone or on your computer. Please keep it to 60 seconds or
00:37:26.240 less. Sometimes people send me their life story. It's always very interesting, but we can't put it
00:37:31.660 on the show then. So 60 seconds or less, you attach the file, send it in, and then I will get to hear
00:37:36.420 your mellifluous voice on the show on Friday. My favorite comment yesterday is from Daniel Knoll,
00:37:42.500 who says, I think Dylan Mulvaney should receive a man of the year award. He has single-handedly helped
00:37:46.960 thousands of alcoholics start their path to recovery. Way to go, Dylan. Good work, sir.
00:37:53.240 Yeah, man. Yeah, man. Great stuff. It's going to, or though, to be fair, it might just cause people
00:38:01.600 to double down and drink Yingling. I think Yingling might be the last pro-American beer, openly pro-American
00:38:07.960 beer in the country. My favorite piece of political oratory and rhetoric that I've heard in a great
00:38:16.940 long time comes from a middle school student in Massachusetts. I'm not going to say the
00:38:26.020 student's name or give too much in the way of detail because I don't want to help to ruin this
00:38:30.320 kid's life by making him too famous at too young an age. But he showed up to this public forum. He gave
00:38:36.160 a beautifully articulate speech about why he was sent home from school.
00:38:45.240 I'm in the 7th, 10th grade at Nichols Middle School. I appreciate the opportunity to speak
00:38:50.020 to you today. I never thought that the shirt I wore to school on March 21st would lead me
00:38:55.460 to speak with you today. On that Tuesday morning, I was taken out of gym class to sit down with two
00:39:01.340 adults for what turned out to be a very uncomfortable talk. I was told that people
00:39:06.220 were complaining about the words on my shirt, that my shirt was making some students feel
00:39:10.420 unsafe. Yes, words on a shirt made people feel unsafe. They told me that I wasn't in trouble,
00:39:16.420 but it sure felt like I was. I was told that I would need to remove my shirt before I could return
00:39:22.500 to class. When I nicely told them that I didn't want to do that, they called my father. Thankfully,
00:39:28.020 my dad supported my decisions and came to pick me up. What did my shirt say? Five simple words.
00:39:34.760 There are only two genders. Nothing harmful, nothing threatening, just a statement I believe 1.00
00:39:40.880 to be a fact. I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class. Who is this protected
00:39:46.380 class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? I don't complain when I see pride flags 0.84
00:39:51.880 and diversity posters hung throughout the school. Do you know why? Because others have a right
00:39:56.440 to their beliefs just as I do. Put a pause there. The only thing I disagree with that this kid has
00:40:01.140 said is that last part. He's too tolerant of the libs, of the libs who sent him home. Other than that,
00:40:11.240 everything he said was so right. He said, are their feelings more important than my rights?
00:40:18.280 And he says, I don't, I don't say that they don't have the right to hang a pride flag in the classroom.
00:40:24.100 They don't. The pride flag is wrong. It symbolizes wrong ideas about human nature, about a lot of 0.99
00:40:32.480 things. There's no right to that. There is a right to tell the truth. There's a right to say there are
00:40:41.600 only two genders. There is no right to say there are three genders. Well, Michael, what about free 1.00
00:40:48.640 speech? What about we tolerate certain speech, even if that speech is unpleasant or even sometimes wrong.
00:40:56.940 But there is no right, especially, one, there's no right to wrong things, though sometimes we tolerate
00:41:05.080 it out of prudence. But especially in a classroom, there is no right to wrong things. If a student
00:41:14.160 is being taught wrong things in a classroom, he's being maleducated. He's in the classroom to be
00:41:20.680 educated. He is being taught things that are not true. He leaves the classroom worse educated than
00:41:25.480 when he came in. Furthermore, if a student is not allowed to recognize the truth in a classroom,
00:41:33.500 forget about being told lies. If he's not even allowed to recognize the truth, there are only
00:41:38.600 two genders. There is zero reason for him to be in that classroom. There's zero reason for a lot of 1.00
00:41:46.040 American students to be in their classrooms. If that's the kind of thing that happens in American 1.00
00:41:51.340 classrooms, close the schools, bulldoze the buildings, give the taxpayers a refund, disband the
00:41:59.480 teacher unions, start over. There is no moderate path of kind of tweaking things. We already ban a
00:42:08.940 lot of stuff from our classrooms. We ban the Bible from our classrooms, even though the Bible is true. 1.00
00:42:14.040 We ban prayer from our classrooms, even though God exists. The free fact that we are speaking
00:42:20.020 intelligibly right now implies that God exists. It's a topic for another time, but the wise people
00:42:27.620 throughout all of history have understood that, and it's the modern people with the crazy hair 0.57
00:42:31.080 shrieking. They're the ones who think they're so much smarter, and we're going to ban it from the
00:42:34.400 classroom. Transgenderism is not real. The idea that a man can be, it's not real. That should not be 1.00
00:42:42.400 allowed in the classroom. A lot of things that are being taught should not be allowed in the classroom.
00:42:47.380 If that boy can't wear that shirt in school, then students cannot get an education in school,
00:42:56.960 and parents have an obligation to get their kids educated elsewhere. Speaking of letters and
00:43:06.540 eradication for that matter, great news before we go. Vice News is going out of business.
00:43:13.520 I know I'm supposed to say, look, we want healthy dialogue in this country, and it's sad. Even
00:43:26.140 though I'm not on their side of the aisle, I'm very sad that we don't have robust, there's no
00:43:31.880 robust dialogue. I want Vice, and I want all of those other stupid magazines. I want them to be 0.99
00:43:38.180 disbanded. I want them to go bankrupt. I want their product to be ground into dirt. I want that
00:43:44.300 dirt to be buried deep underground, and I want to never see it or hear about it again. That's what
00:43:50.700 I want. I can't help but notice that Vice News, where is it? Do I have a copy of this article anywhere?
00:43:58.100 Where's my Vice News article? Oh yeah, here it is. Vice News attacked me almost exactly two months ago.
00:44:08.180 Vice News smeared me and insinuated that I'm a genocidal maniac over my CPAC speech. And then
00:44:14.860 two months later, they go out of business. Is that a coincidence? Probably, but it's a delightful
00:44:22.360 coincidence nevertheless. When I was in college or just after college, the New Republic, for all
00:44:29.140 intents and purposes, went out of business. This is a very prominent journal on the left, and the whole
00:44:35.000 thing got gutted, and it just fell apart. And there were some conservatives I knew who said, oh, that's
00:44:41.240 too bad. What a shame. I don't agree with the New Republic, but I want there to be robust, healthy
00:44:45.440 dialogue on the left and on the right. And I was scratching my head. I thought, why? And then I
00:44:52.820 thought about it. I said, well, okay, occasionally there were some interesting articles in the New
00:44:56.600 Republic. Occasionally, they were somewhat thoughtful. So maybe I could see an argument.
00:45:04.440 Vice News is not the New Republic, and those days are gone. And we're now living in a time of screaming
00:45:09.740 and cacophony and a denial of the ability to engage in intelligible speech and transurrections in the
00:45:16.840 state capitals. Joppa gets genitals off and chaos. And in that world, there's no conciliatory middle ground. 0.84
00:45:27.280 I like politics where there's a conciliatory middle ground. It'd be nice if we could get back to that at some
00:45:31.200 point. That isn't happening. And so we have to win. And to win, we need to drive these people out of their
00:45:41.920 positions of prominence. And we need to celebrate when that happens. Conan, what is best in life?
00:45:50.260 To destroy your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women. That's
00:45:54.260 pretty much where we are at. By the way, there's a story. I don't have time to get to it today.
00:45:59.320 This will be a little teaser for tomorrow. Do you know how many illegal aliens U.S. officials are
00:46:05.520 expecting to start crossing our border every single day within the next couple of weeks?
00:46:11.920 10,000. Within the next couple of weeks, the U.S. officials are expecting illegal border crossings
00:46:22.720 to jump to 3.65 million per year. What's Biden doing about it? I guess we'll get to it tomorrow.
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