The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1248 - The Transgender Facts Liberals Don't Want To Hear

00:00:00.000 Amid all the debate over transgenderism, one of the pro-trans crowd's favorite talking points

00:00:06.440 is that rates of regret and detransition are low. They will often say that the rate of

00:00:13.020 detransition is 1%, maybe 2%. But it turns out that, as with most transgender arguments, 0.92

00:00:20.680 that talking point is not true. A new study on a sample of about 1,000 transitioners

00:00:27.400 has found a detransition rate of nearly 30%, 3-0. Hat tip to Megan McArdle from the Washington Post

00:00:36.120 for calling attention to this study. It is called The Continuation of Gender-Affirming Hormones Among

00:00:41.540 Transgender Adolescents and Adults. The study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology

00:00:47.700 and Metabolism, and it found that the four-year trans hormone continuation rate was just 70.2%.

00:00:55.500 That's a far cry from the 98%, 99% statistic that the trans activists promote. The rate of detransition 1.00

00:01:03.660 was even higher in women. It was 35.6%. And perhaps most interesting of all, it found that people who

00:01:11.520 started cross-sex hormones and the transition process as minors had a higher continuation rate

00:01:18.060 as adults. Now, that fact is unsurprising in itself. Of course, people whose normal development

00:01:25.840 was impeded by cross-sex hormones, people for whom detransition would be much more difficult,

00:01:31.500 are much less likely to attempt it. That part is not all that interesting. What is interesting

00:01:36.700 is that this higher rate helps to explain why leftist activist groups and the big pharma companies that

00:01:44.800 fund them seem so hell-bent on peddling transgenderism to younger and younger children. The younger the

00:01:52.100 victim, the more likely he is to stick with the transition, and the more money goes into the

00:01:57.860 coffers of the people peddling the transgender madness. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. 1.00

00:02:04.300 Welcome back to the show. We've got to get to the most important story, which is that an 81-year-old

00:02:18.740 woman has made it to the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. And frankly, one, 0.94

00:02:24.980 she looks very good, especially for her age. And two, at least it's a woman. So that's, I guess that's

00:02:29.700 a win in the culture. I don't know. It's still not great, though. We will get to that in just a

00:02:33.800 moment. First, though, big pharma is funding all this trans stuff. If not all the trans stuff,

00:02:41.000 big pharma is funding a lot of the trans stuff. And this is not unique to the transgender movement.

00:02:46.500 This is how politics often works. So a story came out yesterday. Big pharma is funding organizations,

00:02:55.360 activist organizations, to push transgenderism into hospitals. The human rights campaign, 0.99

00:03:02.600 that's the leftist organization that has the equal sign. They existed to redefine marriage and say that

00:03:09.840 the marriage now also includes unions of two men and two women. And that was the equal sign bumper 0.89

00:03:16.740 sticker. So you basically avoided the entire debate over what marriage is by simply framing the debate

00:03:22.860 as a matter of rights. Who has the right to get married? And the HRC was very effective. And then the

00:03:29.300 Supreme Court redefined marriage. So what was the HRC going to do? It pivoted. It became a pro-trans 0.65

00:03:33.560 organization. The HRC is this leftist group that has something called the Healthcare Equality Index.

00:03:40.740 And the Healthcare Equality Index measures, quote, healthcare facilities, policies, and practices

00:03:45.040 related to the equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ plus patients, visitors, and employees.

00:03:52.220 Now, who funds the Healthcare Equality Index? I'll give you a hint. It's Pfizer. It's Pfizer and other

00:04:04.700 pharma companies. HRC admits this. You don't need to put on your tinfoil hat and go digging for it.

00:04:09.220 HRC says right on their website that the Healthcare Equality Index, quote, was funded in part by grants

00:04:14.720 from Pharma, P-H-R-M-A, and Pfizer. We all know Pfizer, gigantic pharma company that tried to inject

00:04:23.900 us all with poison for the last three years. It's a little bit of a digression. Pfizer, very, very

00:04:29.260 powerful pharmaceutical company. And Pharma, the Pharmaceutical Researcher and Manufacturers of

00:04:34.980 America, is the trade organization that represents the nation's leading biopharmaceutical research

00:04:40.300 companies. So it's big pharma broadly. I don't even mean just a single advisor. It's the whole

00:04:46.300 industry is funding the HRC. And then HRC, the activist group only concerned with equality and

00:04:54.100 freedom and politics, they go in and they effectively act as the salesman for the big pharma drugs.

00:05:02.380 They go in, they say, in the name of equality and dignity, you need to give these gigantic

00:05:08.160 pharmaceutical companies a lot more money. And then the hospitals acquiesce. It's not that this

00:05:13.980 is all about money. But money provides a lot of the firepower for this activism. I think some people

00:05:21.640 think that the way that the CIA operates, or the way that intelligence agencies operate, is they go down

00:05:27.920 to their labs and they create these special half-robot humanoid-like creatures to go out there and subvert 0.75

00:05:36.980 different political movements, be they on the left or on the right. And the only time that's ever

00:05:41.060 happened is in the case of Pete Buttigieg, who was literally assembled by hand in Langley in a

00:05:45.980 laboratory somewhere below the earth. But for most cases, no, that's not how these groups operate.

00:05:54.420 Whether we're talking about the government, like the intelligence agencies, or whether we're talking

00:05:57.600 about corporations, like these big trade organizations. Usually what happens is when these

00:06:02.280 groups want to wield influence, they will go and they will find activists that already exist,

00:06:08.280 people who are already inclined ideologically their way. And what they'll do is they'll just

00:06:11.800 give them a little push. They'll give them money. They'll give them a little bit more access and a

00:06:16.760 little bit more influence. I'm not saying that HRC only exists for the money. Clearly they like the

00:06:21.280 money. They're a very well-funded organization. But what happened here is the big pharma companies found

00:06:26.840 these activist groups. They juiced them with a ton of cash. Those activist groups act as the shock

00:06:31.500 troops, the people on the ground. And then big pharma makes a lot of money. Sometimes the way that this

00:06:37.060 works is that the pharmaceutical companies, they'll bypass that middleman salesperson, and they'll go

00:06:42.960 straight to the doctors. And then they'll pay the doctors, they'll buy off the doctors, and then the 0.68

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00:08:08.540 the smartest way to hire. In Oregon, the director of an Oregon pediatric gender clinic, so the places 1.00

00:08:17.960 that are transing the kids, we've just learned, has received thousands of dollars from a pharma

00:08:23.500 company that coincidentally makes puberty blockers. Wow, what are the odds? Kara Connolly is the 0.63

00:08:30.460 director of the gender clinic at Doran Becker Children's Hospital in Portland. She's received

00:08:36.100 at least $3,100 from endopharmaceuticals, according to data from the U.S. government's Open Payments

00:08:42.360 Transparency Program. Now, what does this mean? You might say, well, $3,000, that's not big money.

00:08:49.760 First of all, $3,000 is $3,000, okay? And that's the only payment that we know about

00:08:54.040 from this one particular pharmaceutical company. But let's say that it's just $3,000. Let's say the

00:08:59.060 big pharma is just going around to individual doctors and paying them $3,000, $2,000, even, I don't

00:09:04.280 know, $1,000. What does that mean? Well, according to analysis from ProPublica, they've discovered that

00:09:12.100 quote, doctors who received payments linked to specific drugs prescribed more of those drugs.

00:09:17.820 This isn't rocket science. This isn't gender science, okay? It doesn't have to be so complicated

00:09:23.740 and obscured by all this jargon. Turns out that when you fund something, you get more of it. When

00:09:28.860 you incentivize something, you get more of that behavior. And this report from ProPublica found

00:09:35.100 out that quote, on average across all drugs, providers who received payments specifically

00:09:39.960 tied to a drug prescribed at 58% more than providers who did not receive these payments.

00:09:45.860 There is always a financial component here.

00:09:51.180 Again, that does not mean that it's all about the money. But what this tells you

00:09:54.760 is if you want to stop certain depraved behaviors like transing the kids, one effective way to 1.00

00:10:01.720 discourage transing the kids is going to be to go to the financial backing to cut off the source 1.00

00:10:08.040 that is providing all this fuel for the movement. So yes, we got to go in, we got to ban this stuff.

00:10:14.280 Obviously, we got to pass laws. We got to make this illegal. For doctors who continue to do this,

00:10:19.000 we need to throw them in prison. We need to wield the law as best we can. But we can also try to cut

00:10:24.460 off the funding here. We can say, pass a law, okay, big pharma, you're not allowed to fund the human

00:10:29.640 rights campaign, quote unquote, human rights campaign. What a ridiculous title for a left-wing

00:10:33.620 group. We can go in there, we can say, hey, big pharma companies, you're not allowed to bribe

00:10:36.700 doctors anymore. Sorry, no more bribing doctors. Sorry. And then what are we going to see? 58%

00:10:43.720 decrease in the likelihood that the doctors prescribe these drugs. You want to talk about

00:10:49.460 quacks and corruption in the medical industry? This is the most disturbing story I have seen in

00:10:56.020 a very, very long time. It seems like I say that almost every single day. This one really is it.

00:10:59.940 It's from the Atlantic. Very long story. It's called the abortion absolutist. Warren Hearn

00:11:06.760 has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients

00:11:14.420 as ever. You look at this guy, I'm not exaggerating. You get the impression that you are seeing the face

00:11:22.240 of the devil himself. This is an old guy who has specialized for now upwards of half a century

00:11:29.080 not just abortion. Can you imagine the kind of doctor who says, I'm going to go get my medical

00:11:34.920 degree so that I can engage in the very fulfilling, gratifying task of killing babies every single

00:11:41.260 day, multiple babies every single day. But then furthermore, the kind of abortionist who says, 0.90

00:11:45.960 and I'm not just going to kill those really little tiny babies where it's kind of hard to make out their

00:11:49.080 body parts. I'm going to kill late term babies. That's this guy. And he's still doing it.

00:11:54.820 And according to the Atlantic, he's busier than ever. What do we mean by late term? We're talking

00:12:01.840 about killing babies at 25 weeks gestation. We're talking about killing babies at 30 weeks gestation.

00:12:08.960 To put that into perspective, this is what a baby looks like at 30 weeks gestation. I just Googled

00:12:16.360 30 week preemie baby. These are in every single way, in every physical way, babies who just look

00:12:26.720 exactly like babies that you see, newborn, really young babies, right when mama goes to the hospital,

00:12:33.020 gives birth, comes out. This is exactly what they look like. They're a little bit smaller. So they're

00:12:37.500 being treated a little bit in the NICU, but they, in every single way, are babies. Their skin looks like 0.99

00:12:43.760 their skin. Their limbs look like their limbs. Their faces look like their faces. And this guy

00:12:47.980 goes in and kills them multiple times a day for 50 years. He has admitted in this article to killing

00:12:58.300 a girl just because she's a girl. Because mommy didn't want a girl. Mommy wanted a boy. So he goes

00:13:03.380 in and kills a baby who looks something like this because she's a girl. And if she had been a boy,

00:13:11.540 she would have lived, but she's a girl. So she's got to be murdered. Same thing. He admits to killing

00:13:17.020 a boy for being a boy. He admits, this is an amazing work of journalism by Elaine Godfrey. He admits

00:13:25.060 that he's killed babies with a still beating heart after he takes them out of his mother's womb, 0.58

00:13:30.600 out of their mother's womb, rather. He admits that he's woken up in terror, that he's been haunted

00:13:36.360 by the images of these babies and their beating heart. Like the Edgar Allen Poe story. The heart

00:13:42.340 just beating wakes him up. And he admits that half or maybe even more than half of the women who come to

00:13:50.860 him seeking an abortion don't have any medical argument for seeking that abortion. This is such

00:13:59.280 a phenomenal work of journalism. Really probably deserves a Pulitzer Prize because one, this author

00:14:06.920 from the Atlantic has gone out, found the story that basically no one had heard about. And she has

00:14:12.780 knocked down so many of the lies of the pro-abortion movement. What does the pro-abortion movement tell

00:14:18.440 us? The baby's not a baby. Here it is. Look at the baby. You can see that's a baby. What does the

00:14:26.360 pro-abortion movement tell us? Oh, late-term abortions don't happen. They're so exceedingly

00:14:30.500 rare. Oh, it never happens. What are you talking about? This guy's busier than ever. Oh, people

00:14:36.480 don't kill their babies because of their sex. They do. Oh, no. The women who, if you seek a late-term 1.00

00:14:43.480 abortion, it's because your life is threatened and you need to protect your life. No, this guy admits

00:14:48.620 half the time, more than half the time, they just don't want the baby. So they're just going to go to

00:14:52.780 this guy and kill the baby. The other reason this story is so important is because this is not just

00:15:03.700 one guy. This is not just some extreme case. This is not just the fringe of the industry.

00:15:11.040 This is what all abortion is. 0.99

00:15:13.920 The reason that we are particularly horrified, the reason why even the majority of people,

00:15:23.100 the vast majority of people who would call themselves pro-choice would still recoil in

00:15:26.880 horror and think that this should be banned, is because we look at the baby and bypassing

00:15:33.220 our reason, we just have this intense, visceral, emotional response to images of vulnerable little

00:15:38.740 babies that we, that we can immediately recognize to be babies. But there's no essential difference

00:15:47.020 between this baby and the baby at 20 weeks or 15 weeks or 10 weeks or five weeks or the baby

00:15:54.220 from the moment of conception, still a baby, still an individual human life being snuffed out,

00:16:03.420 a person being murdered with the ascent of the mother at the hands of Mengele Redux over here.

00:16:14.160 Okay? That's what abortion is. Abortion stops a beating heart. And you can't always see the 1.00

00:16:21.560 beating heart as clearly as that doctor has sometimes outside the womb, but it stops a beating heart.

00:16:26.440 Where abortion is undertaken for selfish reasons. It's not always as clear as, oh, I don't really

00:16:35.160 want a girl. But it's child sacrifice at the altar of a false god. And ultimately at the altar of the 0.68

00:16:44.280 self. Undertaken for selfish reasons by the people procuring them and undertaken for selfish reasons

00:16:49.100 by the doctors who do it to make a lot of money. To say nothing of whatever other psychological

00:16:55.680 problems they've got. This guy in a, in a just world, this guy would be clearly violating the law.

00:17:04.160 And if he continued to clearly violate the law, he would be executed by the state. He would be

00:17:09.400 convicted by a jury of his peers. He would be, he would receive capital punishment. This guy is one of,

00:17:15.280 if not the single worst mass killer in American history. Mass killer of the most vulnerable,

00:17:22.200 innocent people. Brilliant journalism, really good stuff. I don't know if the author intended it to

00:17:27.480 be such brilliant journalism, but it certainly is. We need to show what abortion looks like. I know

00:17:35.180 that's a controversial tactic of the pro-life movement. It's extraordinarily effective. We need

00:17:41.740 to show what it looks like. There's a group that just went out, they got a boat, and they decided to go

00:17:48.340 protest a party held by Planned Parenthood. Here's how they did it. They got signs, they got a bullhorn,

00:17:55.220 and they got pictures of what abortion really looks like. And here's how the pro-life group interrupted

00:17:59.520 this little nice seaside cocktail soiree of people whose raison d'etre is to murder babies.

00:18:06.160 The organization that does this to little babies, you guys are brainwashed. Honestly,

00:18:13.620 open your eyes. A three-year-old could see, a five-year-old could see that this is wrong.

00:18:19.680 This is so utterly shameful.

00:18:22.400 Zero woman. 1.00

00:18:23.340 Shame on all of you guys. Open your eyes and look at what you're supporting.

00:18:27.540 So let their heart beat. Let their heart beat. Let their heart beat. Let their heart beat.

00:18:37.000 Off their bodies, for sex. Off their bodies, for sex. Off their bodies, for sex. Off their bodies, 0.99

00:18:42.880 for sex. Activism here, right? There's no subtlety here. There's no, well, we have different views,

00:18:51.880 but we're going to sort of have a reasonable conversation to meet in the middle. You know

00:18:56.180 that I'm all for that. And I've had conversations with pro-abortion people and we've been very civil

00:19:01.180 when we're just presenting arguments. I'm all for civil disagreement. I'm all for gentlemanliness.

00:19:10.260 But different issues call for different kinds of tactics. These people are murdering little babies. 0.99

00:19:18.060 And so that requires rhetoric that is a little bit more pointed and direct and urgent. The graphic

00:19:25.200 photos are very effective. Imagine if you were there at this party. What would you, you would have

00:19:31.040 two options and only two options. You could either look at the photos or you could turn away from the

00:19:35.700 photos. And this is very effective for people who say that they're pro-abortion. If you're working

00:19:40.920 for Planned Parenthood, odds are you are a stone cold killer and you're not going to be all that moved

00:19:45.840 by these photos. Sometimes you are. I mean, they're, they're great pro-life leaders who worked for

00:19:49.240 Planned Parenthood, who worked for the pro-abortion movement. Some of whom helped lead the pro-abortion

00:19:52.760 movement. They became huge pro-life advocates. One of the founders of the National Abortion Rights

00:19:57.260 League, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, was one of those people. But you've only got two options. If you're

00:20:02.160 that person, you're looking at those pictures. You can either look steely-eyed cold, in which case

00:20:08.780 you are clear to everyone around you, a stone cold psychopath, or you can look away.

00:20:16.820 And the vast majority of people who are not would-be serial killers or literal serial killers

00:20:24.080 in some cases, they would look away. They can't look at it. And the mere act of looking away is

00:20:29.700 instructive. The act of looking away from these photos is instructive to the public broadly. Why

00:20:36.460 can't the abortion advocates stand by their belief, stand on their principles, look what they're doing

00:20:41.900 square in the face? What does that mean about what they're doing? And it's instructive to the

00:20:46.880 pro-abortion people themselves, to the people who look away. We can learn things about ourselves from

00:20:54.100 our own behavior. And very often, it's easier to change our minds than to change our behavior. And if

00:21:00.100 you have that gut, visceral reaction to, whoa, I can't look at this. This is evil. I'm looking away.

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00:22:42.380 The libs thrive by obscuring reality. That's what they do, okay? We'll get into that in one second. 0.89

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00:23:31.340 kick woke out of his bathroom. The libs thrive by obscuring reality. New slogan just dropped.

00:23:41.080 New jargon, politically correct phrase just dropped. You remember diversity and inclusion? I mentioned

00:23:47.280 this at the end of the show yesterday. Diversity and inclusion, that's out. That's canceled. That is

00:23:53.060 passe, old man. Get with the new hip lingo. The new hip lingo is diversity and belonging.

00:24:02.340 Very different, but this is what I'm told by the New York Times. Why some companies are saying

00:24:06.020 diversity and belonging instead of diversity and inclusion. Before I read this article, I just saw

00:24:12.200 the headline. I said, I know exactly why they've done that. Because diversity and inclusion is an

00:24:20.880 an anodyne sounding euphemism for a hideous activity. And the hideous activity is the leftist

00:24:31.540 campaign to incite race hate against white people and sexual absurdity among everybody. That's all it

00:24:37.460 means. Diversity and equity and inclusion, all those policies mean in practice is discriminate against

00:24:44.960 white people and promote sexual disorder and chaos and madness and tell dudes that they're chicks and 0.99

00:24:53.460 chicks that they're dudes and people that they can be in throuples with two women, four guys and a

00:24:58.400 billy goat. How is that a throuple? I don't know. It identifies as three. That's all DEI is. And so why are 0.90

00:25:06.780 they changing the euphemism? Because they are on what Steven Pinker at Harvard calls the euphemism

00:25:13.680 treadmill. Steven Pinker is a liberal guy, but he observed this fact about language. And I talk about

00:25:17.500 it in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available wherever

00:25:20.700 you want to. Hello, where's my bell? Okay, finally. The euphemism treadmill observes that political

00:25:29.420 activists have to change euphemisms regularly because the purpose of political euphemisms, especially when

00:25:36.520 we're talking about something like political correctness, is not to soften harsh truths, not to use

00:25:41.880 just a slightly more polite phrase, but to lie, to deceive people. If you say that an illegal alien

00:25:50.580 is an undocumented American, you're not just softening the truth a little bit, you're lying. 0.96

00:25:55.320 You're telling the opposite of whatever the illegal alien is, he's not an American. And so if you call 0.98

00:25:59.400 him an undocumented American, you're just telling a lie. But what happens is that when you lie through 1.00

00:26:04.700 the use of this language, ultimately people begin to remember and to recognize the odious underlying

00:26:13.320 reality of the thing that you're lying about. And so the odious underlying reality of that thing

00:26:18.980 starts to color the euphemism, even if it's the floweriest, nicest sounding euphemism ever.

00:26:24.160 So the euphemism takes on this stench. The euphemism takes on this nasty kind of connotation. And so the

00:26:31.020 radicals, if they want to keep up the racket, they've got to change the euphemism. So I knew 1.00

00:26:34.960 that instantly when I saw that headline. I said, okay, maybe I'm being prejudicial. Maybe I'm rushing

00:26:39.960 to judgment. And then I read the article and that's exactly what it is. The libs are realizing that

00:26:45.100 people have turned against DEI. And so instead of saying, all right, we're going to abandon this

00:26:50.300 very unpopular and unjust and hideous sort of political campaign, they say, no, you know what we're

00:26:57.560 going to do? We're just going to change the slogan to diversity and belonging instead. The thing is,

00:27:04.580 it will work for some time. Political correctness, which we now call wokeness, has worked

00:27:09.400 pretty well as a political campaign. So it will do people from some time. But the odious underlying

00:27:15.120 reality of that campaign is going to dawn on people again. Then they're going to change the words.

00:27:20.420 Again, speaking of politically incorrect terms, there is a member of parliament in the motherland,

00:27:25.520 British MP who is attacking a conservative Tory MP for referring to the ideology and the intellectual

00:27:34.740 movement of cultural Marxism. Now, speaking of that book I told you about earlier, Speechless,

00:27:41.520 Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. It's my number one bestselling book, national bestseller. You can

00:27:44.540 get there. Thank you. For the first part of that book in particular, I talk about this intellectual

00:27:49.780 movement that dominated leftist politics in the 20th century. Well, according to this left-wing MP,

00:27:59.780 quote, cultural Marxism is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory supported by neo-Nazis and groups like the

00:28:07.560 BNP. Disturbing to see another Tory MP spreading it after Suella Braverman did the same in 2019.

00:28:14.840 We can't let far-right language be normalized in politics. I don't blame cultural Marxism or neo-Marxism

00:28:24.280 or 20th century Marxism, all of which are synonymous, for everything. In fact, I think that that intellectual

00:28:31.120 movement is blamed for more than it should be blamed for. And I think the reason it's blamed for

00:28:35.760 more than it should be blamed for is because a lot of conservatives don't realize that liberalism is

00:28:41.800 bad too. That not every terrible thing in the world owes to Marxism. Actually, liberalism,

00:28:47.960 the modern kind of liberalism, the classical kind of liberalism, liberalism broadly, is also very bad

00:28:52.900 and is responsible for a lot of ills. So sometimes I think conservatives project some of the ills of

00:28:59.660 liberalism onto other intellectual movements, including cultural Marxism. But that doesn't mean

00:29:06.600 that cultural Marxism doesn't exist. It's a very well-known intellectual movement described as such

00:29:12.840 as a cultural kind of Marxism by the very prominent left-wing intellectuals at the very prominent

00:29:19.620 institutions which they taught and operated for much of the 20th century. If you look back on

00:29:26.940 Wikipedia just a few years ago, typing cultural Marxism, they'll say cultural Marxism was part of

00:29:32.660 the Marxist tradition in the West that really came to the fore in the 20th century. And it was promoted

00:29:38.360 by thinkers such as Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, the Frankfurt School. It actually predates the

00:29:47.680 Frankfurt School a little bit with Italian thinkers like Antonio Gramsci or Lukács over in Hungary or a

00:29:56.000 number of other people. And these guys had positions of prominence. They taught at very prominent American

00:30:01.740 universities, including Columbia University. They worked with the government. Herbert Marcuse worked

00:30:05.540 with the OSS, which was the precursor to the CIA. Herbert Marcuse then went on to become the father

00:30:10.620 of the new left. Again, I didn't give him that title. It was the leftists who gave him that title.

00:30:15.160 He remains extraordinarily influential. They're fairly interesting thinkers. They're wrong. Ultimately,

00:30:23.120 they're wrong about everything. They're wrong in the meantime about a lot of things. But they have

00:30:27.360 lots of interesting observations. I've read them extensively. And in fact, I wrote a book about

00:30:33.340 these guys. To say that that doesn't exist is simply ignorant. But this Tory MP, one, doesn't know

00:30:43.720 anything about anything. So ironically, though, she would accuse us of ignorance or dog whistling or

00:30:50.820 whatever. She has never read these people. These people whose intellectual work has laid the groundwork

00:30:57.340 for many of her views and activities, even unbeknownst to her. But furthermore, what she's

00:31:03.920 engaging in is, ironically, or maybe not, a product of cultural Marxism, a product of attaining cultural

00:31:12.260 hegemony, a war of position rather than a war of movement, to use the language of Antonio Gramsci,

00:31:17.060 whereby the libs take over the culture, and you barely even notice that they've done it. 0.95

00:31:23.980 And then what happens? Once they've attained that cultural hegemony, because they ultimately turn

00:31:27.880 away from objective truth and reality, they deny the reality of what they've done. It's really no

00:31:32.300 different from Stalin erasing people that he liquidated out of his photographs, people that he

00:31:38.260 purged. Just, oop, no, that person was never there. Because if you believe that history is

00:31:45.620 fundamentally a matter not of God's providence and not of ideas coming to their logical conclusions

00:31:51.920 and not of reason, at least. Because Marxists, to some degree, do believe that history is a

00:31:57.620 consequence of ideas coming to their logical conclusions. But it's divorced from reason.

00:32:00.680 It's divorced from objective truth. It's certainly a divorce from God. If you believe that, that it's

00:32:04.560 really just fundamentally about the will, then you can go in and say, oh, yeah, that prominent

00:32:08.960 intellectual movement, yeah, that's an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. It's so brazen. It is almost as

00:32:16.020 brazen as saying 50 years from now, oh, you keep mentioning Hillary Clinton? Who's Hillary? Hillary

00:32:22.880 Clinton never existed. What are you talking about? That's a tinfoil hat, racist, phobic, anti-Semitic

00:32:30.020 conspiracy theory. I say, well, look at all the evidence and look at all the, we have all the video

00:32:35.440 footage and we have all of the people. What are you talking about? That never happened. Two plus two

00:32:40.820 equals five. What are you talking about? Speaking of willful ignorance, conservatives are still

00:32:45.900 focusing some of their firepower on Hunter Biden. Nancy Mace, who is a liberal Republican, but she's

00:32:55.140 kind of feisty and fiery and occasionally she's on the right side of an issue. Nancy Mace is furious 1.00

00:33:01.820 that the Democrats and the DOJ are not taking the case against Hunter Biden more seriously.

00:33:08.780 Here we have a DOJ and FBI who are, who are indicting Trump on misdemeanors and then will not

00:33:15.160 investigate Biden for betraying his country. And I have to tell you, absolutely no one can accuse me

00:33:20.380 of being hyper-partisan or being in the tank for Donald Trump. But good Lord, the amount of evidence

00:33:26.000 in this case is ridiculous. They weren't hiring Hunter Biden for his brains. They weren't hiring

00:33:31.300 certainly Hunter Biden for his bra. They were hiring him to pay for access to the White House. And we

00:33:36.960 see this pattern repeat itself over and over and over again. Obviously that's true. And you can hear

00:33:43.980 Nancy Mace's exasperation. The evidence that we have against Hunter Biden is ridiculous.

00:33:51.140 That's the problem. That's one of the big problems here. It is ridiculous. It's insane. If we only had a

00:34:00.160 small amount of evidence against Hunter Biden, that would be one thing. It would actually be easier.

00:34:05.740 I would feel better about our prospects of prosecuting this guy. But because the evidence

00:34:10.980 is so overwhelming, because his crimes were so cartoonishly villainous at every level, the white 1.00

00:34:17.960 collar crimes, the payoffs, the bribery, the deception, the fraud, down to the street level crimes.

00:34:23.600 This guy's smoking crack, getting beaten up on the skid row. He's got a different hooker, 0.99

00:34:27.880 it seems every hour of the day. He's filming all of his activities with all of these people,

00:34:32.180 saying into camera, I am committing crimes. Here is all the evidence of my crimes. Then he leaves the

00:34:36.660 laptop with all the evidence at a repair shop and the DOJ does nothing about it. That's the problem.

00:34:43.320 It's so brazen. It shows you the pervasiveness and the depth of the corruption of our government.

00:34:51.520 Yeah, it's totally ridiculous. And what are you going to do about it? What are any of us going

00:34:56.740 to do about it? Even if they do indict the guy, what are they going to do? They're going to indict

00:35:00.640 him. They're going to try him on some lesser charges. Then they're going to give him like

00:35:04.660 five minutes probation. Then he's going to go right back to selling his stupid doodles for half a

00:35:08.720 million dollar a pop, which is the same racket that he's been playing the whole time. The whole time

00:35:14.620 that he's been an adult, that his father's been in politics, what's he been doing? He's been selling

00:35:18.620 influence, ultimately selling out the American government to the highest bidder. He's just

00:35:22.600 going to keep doing that. It's ridiculous. It's not just Hunter Biden's ridiculous. It's the whole

00:35:27.360 system. And the system is not going to destroy one of its own. Even if the system made a little

00:35:35.280 bit of an example out of Hunter Biden, that corruption is going to continue on. Occasionally,

00:35:40.900 the libs will admit when they are in the wrong. And I want to give them credit for it. They don't

00:35:46.300 deserve full credit for it, but they deserve a little bit of credit for it. Jake Tapper,

00:35:49.880 the other day, after the Durham report comes out, the Durham report, which shows there was no basis

00:35:53.640 for spying on Trump's campaign. There was no basis for the Russia hoax. It was completely cooked up by

00:35:58.320 the Clinton campaign. The CIA director knew that it was cooked up by the Clinton campaign. Not only the

00:36:04.080 CIA director, but the head of the FBI, the vice president, the president himself, Barack Obama,

00:36:09.060 they all knew it was a dirty trick campaign stunt nonsense by Hillary. And they proceeded with a 1.00

00:36:15.420 straight face to try to destroy Trump anyway. This all, it was spelled out clear as day in the

00:36:20.360 Durham report. Jake Tapper of CNN admits, huh, this is pretty damning. Regardless, the report is now

00:36:29.320 here. It has dropped and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hope for.

00:36:33.500 It is regardless devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.

00:36:42.200 So Jake Tapper goes even further than you might've expected. Not only does he admit,

00:36:46.640 okay, this is really bad for the FBI. Damning, actually. Not just a little bad, damning. But

00:36:53.560 further, and Jake Tapper can't go the whole way, but he has to throw a caveat or two in there. But

00:36:59.500 nevertheless, he says, it exonerates Trump. Yeah. And that's great. And we should remember that.

00:37:05.500 And the next time the libs try to peddle all this, the walls are closing in. It's Mueller time. He's

00:37:09.320 a Russian Putin stooge or whatever. You can say, hey, even Jake Tapper, who's a lib, who started out

00:37:14.040 his career as a Democrat political operative, who has remained a Democrat political operative,

00:37:18.800 albeit one who calls himself a newsman on TV, but he's a little bit more fair than the other guys.

00:37:23.180 He comes out and he says, yeah, okay, this exonerates Trump. And the libs will sometimes do

00:37:29.160 that once it no longer matters. The libs will sometimes, occasionally, very often they'll

00:37:35.720 keep up the lie, deny till you die. But sometimes they will admit that years later. The Russia hoax 0.66

00:37:41.700 began in 2016. It is now the year of our Lord, 2023. And finally, seven years later, the libs will say,

00:37:50.140 yeah, okay, I guess we kind of made it all up. Oopsie. That's old news now. Moving on,

00:37:57.240 moving on. My favorite comment yesterday is from Patro M. And we'll get to that in one second.

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00:39:31.680 it's a quote from Miller Lite. Hey, Bud Lite, hold my beer. Do you get it? I love a good one-liner.

00:39:43.280 You know, a good little Henny Youngman, all right? Like, for instance, take my wife. Please! Okay. We've

00:39:48.640 got to get to the really important stories now. That would be the 81-year-old woman gracing the cover 1.00

00:39:56.900 of Sports Illustrated. This has created some controversy, and if I got to weigh in on just

00:40:07.180 aesthetically speaking how the cover looks, Martha Stewart looks great, certainly for an 81-year-old

00:40:15.000 woman, certainly for a 71-year-old woman, certainly for a 61-year-old woman. She frankly looks great for

00:40:22.020 like a 51-year-old woman, maybe even a woman in her 40s. It is shocking how good Martha Stewart looks.

00:40:29.660 I don't only say this because Martha Stewart is a great, basically wholesome, traditional cultural

00:40:36.280 figure. By the way, it's not like she's wearing a bikini or something in this. It's a pretty tasteful

00:40:40.800 Sports Illustrated cover. But we all suspect something is kind of wrong with this.

00:40:46.800 It just feels wrong to have an 81-year-old on your swimsuit cover, right? But people are having

00:40:54.740 trouble putting their finger on exactly what's wrong about it. For one, she's a woman. That's 1.00

00:40:58.440 more than can be said of Sports Illustrated's cover in recent years. There is a transsexual,

00:41:04.180 a trans-identifying man in this issue as well. Now, part of why Sports Illustrated does this is

00:41:12.620 because Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue is an anachronism. It used to be really kind of fun

00:41:18.300 and titillating back in the 90s, even the 2000s, back before the ubiquity of hardcore internet

00:41:25.480 pornography, back when people would go down to the newsstand, back when those still existed,

00:41:29.760 and they'd buy the magazine and say, ooh, tee-hee-hee, we're going to see some pretty women wearing not 1.00

00:41:33.700 a lot of clothing. Ooh, tee-hee-hee. But now you go on the internet and you get whatever the most

00:41:38.140 depraved, disordered desire you can possibly imagine is. You can multiply it by 300 and you

00:41:43.420 can find it at the click of a button. So Sports Illustrated, in order to stay relevant, to stay in

00:41:49.100 the news, it has to create controversy. And one way to create controversy is to pretend that dudes are

00:41:55.280 chicks, which is obviously completely disgusting, but at least gets them in the news. And then a better

00:42:01.180 way for them to create controversy is to put an 81-year-old woman on the cover. So okay,

00:42:04.300 mission accomplished, they did that. But why is it wrong? Why is it wrong that even this very

00:42:11.280 good-looking woman at 81 years old is undercover? I go back to a line from St. Gregory the Great, 0.98

00:42:20.920 which has been popularized in recent years by St. Josemaria Escriva, which is that it is not good

00:42:28.080 to look at what it is not licit to desire. And I'm not going to use this line in its precision.

00:42:36.720 I just mean it as a way to sort of get at why people feel like it's a little bit wrong to have

00:42:43.660 an 81-year-old woman wearing a swimsuit on the cover of this magazine. We think it's wrong because

00:42:49.180 we know we should not be sexually desiring an 81-year-old woman. Even an 81-year-old woman who's

00:42:57.820 a beloved cultural figure who looks very, very good, especially for her age. It's just, that's not

00:43:03.460 right. It makes sense to sexually desire when you're a young man and you're single and you're

00:43:10.480 looking at a date and get married. It makes sense to desire the women around your age and then to

00:43:18.120 follow that desire by asking the girl out to get a drink or to get dinner and then to follow that

00:43:23.120 desire by dating for a period of time and then to follow that desire by getting married and to

00:43:26.980 follow that desire by doing that thing that married couples do and then to follow that desire by

00:43:30.860 creating children as a result of your physical expression of that bond of love, that love which

00:43:37.100 becomes so real that it actually becomes expressed in a new person and to allow that love to deepen and

00:43:41.860 desire in a way that changes and deepens and grows over time your spouse until both of you are 81 and

00:43:50.080 you're sitting on a porch somewhere sipping iced tea looking at all your kids and grandkids. That makes

00:43:54.460 sense. But it's kind of weird for young men who are supposedly the people who are buying the Sports

00:44:01.360 Illustrated swimsuit issue to be ogling an 81-year-old, a woman who could be their grandmother.

00:44:07.320 That's wrong. And even if Martha Stewart, I don't know if she's had any work done,

00:44:13.860 give Martha the benefit of the doubt, but let's assume like most celebrities, she's had maybe just 0.88

00:44:18.380 a little bit of work here and there or she's got personal trainers at least and good diet. 1.00

00:44:22.120 And let's assume that there's some airbrushing going on in Photoshop to kind of make the picture

00:44:27.100 look a little bit better. It's wrong to feel that desire. Even if you say the whole concept of the

00:44:36.540 swimsuit issue is a little bit wrong because it's inciting lust or something, which again, 0.77

00:44:40.140 that's a whole separate argument. But whatever it is, it's not meant for 81-year-olds. That's just

00:44:50.460 not appropriate. And radicals want to distill all of life down to three bullet points on a napkin that

00:44:59.600 they can call their political manifesto. But life is more complex than that. And one way to approach

00:45:05.640 these kinds of thoughts is with moderation and with prudence and with practical wisdom

00:45:13.020 and with recognizing that things are meant to be in their proper place. When a man behaves like a

00:45:19.800 woman, that's improper. That's womanish. When a woman behaves like a woman, that's proper. That's 1.00

00:45:25.040 womanly. They're both behaving like women. Why can't they do that? Well, because one is not proper to 1.00

00:45:30.180 their nature and one is proper to their nature. And the nature of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

00:45:35.260 Issue is that it is not proper for an 81-year-old woman to be on the cover no matter how good she 1.00

00:45:38.900 looks. Speaking of women of a certain age, a bit older than Martha Stewart, Cleopatra not doing very

00:45:45.800 well in the ratings. We've talked about Cleopatra, which is the Netflix documentary about

00:45:52.740 a famously white woman who spoke Greek, who is an ancient ruler around the Mediterranean, 0.99

00:46:01.960 who is now being portrayed by a black woman in a way that is a little bit absurd, especially if we're 0.95

00:46:07.040 talking about it in a historical product here. Well, it turns out viewers agree with my take that

00:46:13.240 this is absurd. The docudrama has a 2% audience score. And not only that, because you might say,

00:46:20.420 well, maybe it was political activists who bombarded the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:46:25.200 It's only got 11% critics, too. This thing is getting absolutely panned. One audience member is

00:46:31.500 saying, this is hopelessly inaccurate and a complete failure to understand Egyptian culture

00:46:36.340 and history. No depth or atmosphere of the time. Just a poor attempt to Americanize Egyptian history

00:46:40.420 by changing it to suit American culture. Okay, that's what one of the viewers says. One of the critics

00:46:44.680 says, it's too soapy for serious history fans and not enough soap for viewers who like juicy historical

00:46:52.460 dramas. It's just not proper. I don't know who this actress is. Maybe she's a good actress, 0.99

00:47:02.020 but it's not her role. She's miscast. And even a very, very good actor in the wrong role

00:47:07.940 is not going to give you a great performance. And the work of art is going to fail.

00:47:14.960 Falsehood produces bad art. Good art is truthful. What falsehood produces is absurdity,

00:47:26.720 things out of whack. And absurdity and things being out of whack and incongruity,

00:47:31.800 that can make funny comedy. That is one of the most prominent constituent parts of funny comedy.

00:47:37.940 But it doesn't make beautiful art. It doesn't make documentaries, really. People can suss that

00:47:44.460 out. When a modern artist goes around and points to a urinal and says, that's art. Isn't it so

00:47:50.000 beautiful? Everyone knows it's not beautiful. It's not because the urinal is a bad thing. The

00:47:55.780 urinal has a proper place. It's called the bathroom. It's called the men's room. Or I guess, 1.00

00:47:59.560 as we move into our brave new world, probably the women's room, too. But we know that that's absurd.

00:48:03.900 We would laugh at that. And certainly in an art gallery, that would be absurd. Things need to be

00:48:08.900 in their proper place. And the proper place for my iPad is in front of me on this table right now.

00:48:15.380 We are heading into the member block. It is Woke Wednesday. My producer, the intrepid Ben Davies,

00:48:21.540 is sitting here. He has got a very important TikTok to teach us all about systemic racism. So we will get

00:48:30.580 to that. We will be in the chat. Head on over to dailywire.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. Use

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 17, 2023

Ep. 1248 - The Transgender Facts Liberals Don't Want To Hear

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