The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1251 - Target Is Targeting Your Kids With These Trans Clothes

00:00:00.000 You guys want to hear something weird? Something really coincidental?

00:00:04.140 So there's a county in New York. It's called Nassau County. It's out in Long Island,

00:00:08.640 right on the border of Queens. For decades, Nassau County has been reliably Democrat,

00:00:15.160 albeit sometimes by tight margins. Then a couple of years ago, Nassau County voters

00:00:21.400 decided they had had enough and they elected Republicans down the ballot. Here's how the

00:00:26.640 New York Times reported that surprise Republican victory. Why Republicans won in a New York County

00:00:33.860 where Democrats outnumber them. Voters readily ousted Democrats in Nassau County on Long Island,

00:00:39.960 electing Republicans down the ballot. Goes on. What a crazy, what a crazy turn of events.

00:00:45.260 That article is from November 8th, 2021. Now it's May, 2023. And what do you know,

00:00:53.260 some kind of glitch just turned every single registered voter in Nassau Democrat. Here's

00:01:00.540 how NBC just reported on this strange occurrence. Human error turns every registered Nassau County

00:01:07.860 voter Democrat. Spokesperson called it an isolated event. We apologize for our mistake. Whoopsie

00:01:14.480 daisy. They're blaming the error on a graphics company that printed the voter information cards

00:01:20.300 that were just mailed out before the upcoming primary elections. They say, Phoenix Graphics

00:01:28.080 Incorporated made a human error on voter information cards for Nassau County. We take responsibility for

00:01:33.860 that. This is an isolated event, but we apologize for our mistake, especially to Nassau County officials

00:01:39.980 who bear no responsibility for this problem. We have fixed the error. Okay. Okay. Sure.

00:01:49.900 Little coincidental, but fine. Let's say that the notoriously corrupt Democrat politicians in New York

00:01:57.840 had nothing to do with this. Let's say that the dubious technologies that increasingly run our elections

00:02:04.860 had nothing to do with this. Let's say it was just an oopsie daisy, yet another one of the oopsie daisies

00:02:11.280 that only ever seem to run in one direction. Whatever the problem, the crisis we're dealing with

00:02:17.220 is not one of personnel or technology. Neither side trusts the elections because neither side trusts

00:02:24.820 the institutions that run the elections because neither side trusts that the other side is even interested

00:02:30.760 in pursuing the common good. In other words, the problem that we're dealing with is a crisis

00:02:37.240 of regime. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:47.900 Welcome back to the show. We have got great footage of a Nebraska Democrat state senator making an

00:02:56.280 extraordinarily articulate argument for transgenderism. It's not objectively articulate,

00:03:02.260 but it is relatively articulate compared to all the other arguments for transgenderism. We'll get to

00:03:07.040 that in just a little second. First, though, our political order is increasingly a farce.

00:03:15.860 Forget about the one New York County that flips and goes Republican. Oh, oopsie daisy. Now all of the

00:03:21.980 voters are Democrats, every single one. No, forget about that for a second. Just look even at basic

00:03:27.600 law and order issues. Do you remember the story? We covered it on the show a little while ago about a

00:03:32.340 42-year-old man who killed an 18-year-old kid, a teenager, for seeming like he was a Republican.

00:03:41.440 That's not even the spin-wild version of the story. That's what the guy admits. This 40-plus-year-old

00:03:53.580 man killed a teenager because the teenager seemed like he might have been a Republican.

00:04:02.560 18-year-old's name, Kaler Ellingson. He ran him over with an SUV because he viewed him as, quote,

00:04:08.040 part of a Republican extremist group. That guy, he just got the charges thrown at him.

00:04:14.980 He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. Now, of course, I don't even want to say it

00:04:21.640 because that's going to be the epitaph on the headstone of conservatism. But you know,

00:04:27.400 imagine if the roles were reversed. Of course, it would be a national news story. You probably

00:04:31.480 haven't even heard of this story other than listening to this show. That is farcical. It's a

00:04:37.400 horrific miscarriage of justice. That's farcical that this guy, this psycho lib, is getting a 0.98

00:04:45.720 maximum of 10 years in prison for killing a kid for being a Republican. That's not even the craziest

00:04:50.780 headline this week. Here's a crazier one. This is from the Post Millennial. An axe-wielding black man 1.00

00:04:58.900 who set Asian UC Berkeley students on fire with a blowtorch will face no jail time.

00:05:05.420 This is a man who was found guilty. So it's not even that he's just being accused. He was found

00:05:11.380 guilty of lighting UC Berkeley students on fire inside a Boba tea shop in 2020 with a blowtorch.

00:05:17.300 He has been released from custody. He will avoid jail time. That guy, his name is Brandon McClone,

00:05:24.160 49 years old. He's going to participate in a diversion treatment as part of his plea deal.

00:05:30.120 Why did Alameda County Superior Court give him this sweet deal? Well, because the Alameda County

00:05:36.420 District Attorney, Pamela Price, ran on racial equity. And you see the man who was wielding the

00:05:42.900 axe and threatening people and setting students on fire, he's a black guy. And his victims were not 0.99

00:05:47.860 black. And so if you run on a platform explicitly of giving black people leniency in the criminal 1.00

00:05:53.860 justice system, going harder relatively on everybody else, then that's the sort of thing you're going to

00:05:58.400 get. You are going to get, you are going to get axe-wielding, blowtorch-bearing attackers

00:06:06.700 released with no jail time. Now, Midwestern grannies who take selfies in the Capitol Rotunda, 0.81

00:06:14.760 we need to throw those guys, I'm sorry, those gals into solitary confinement. We need to lock them up 1.00

00:06:20.800 and throw away the key. That Florida man who smiled while holding Nancy Pelosi's lectern,

00:06:26.400 that guy's going to get three hots and a cot in an orange jumpsuit, okay? Oh man, the horn hat fella

00:06:32.080 who got a private tour of the Capitol escorted by police, that guy, oh baby, lock him up.

00:06:39.980 But the blowtorch-wielding, axe-wielding, would-be murderer, no jail time. That's our criminal justice

00:06:51.480 system. That's white supremacy. That's our white privilege, white supremacy, structurally racist

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00:08:14.860 Meanwhile, in the case of the hero marine who protected a subway car full of passengers in New

00:08:23.880 York from a violent criminal, what's going on with him? That guy has made his first public

00:08:30.260 statement. So you know the liberal politicians have made a big deal out about this. This should

00:08:35.000 have been an open and shut case. He wasn't charged with a crime initially. It was so obvious. You had

00:08:38.820 this guy, Jordan Neely, who had been arrested 40-plus times for violent crimes, by the way. He

00:08:45.100 punched a 60-something-year-old woman in the face, broke her nose, and gave her a black eye. He assaulted

00:08:51.260 another 60-year-old guy. He was threatening people on the subway. He told people, I don't care if I

00:08:57.020 have to kill an effer. I'm not afraid to die. He was acting very erratic and threatening. And this

00:09:03.120 hero marine takes him down. The guy should be given a ticker tape parade. The guy should be given a key

00:09:08.400 to the city. Instead, though, because we live in such a cynical political order that is collapsing

00:09:13.780 around us, you had the liberal politicians say, oh, he's a racist, because the criminal was black,

00:09:19.700 and the hero marine is white. And so it gave an opportunity for the libs to say, oh, this is

00:09:24.780 racism. You know all about that white supremacy. It's just around the corner over there, that white 0.97

00:09:29.900 supremacy. It's hiding under a rock. I know you might not be able to see it, but trust me, it's there.

00:09:35.120 And so this guy then was charged with a crime, and his life is almost certainly going to be ruined.

00:09:39.580 So Daniel Penny has broken his silence. Here's what he had to say. He said, this had nothing to do with

00:09:47.100 race. I judge a person based on their character. I'm not a white supremacist. I mean, if it's a

00:09:52.160 little bit comical, everybody who's ever met me can tell you I love all people. I love all cultures.

00:09:56.760 You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually

00:10:00.420 planning a road trip through Africa before this happened. Man, this is so sad. This is so sad.

00:10:07.760 I'm not making fun of the guy. I'm not even criticizing the guy. But this is sad that this was his reaction,

00:10:13.000 because it's desperate, and it's not going to work. And it reminds me of one of those last scenes from

00:10:18.720 Breaking Bad when Walt is begging the drug dealer gangster to spare the life of his brother-in-law,

00:10:28.260 and Walt doesn't realize what's happening. Sorry, man. Just no scenario where this guy lives.

00:10:34.340 No, no, no, listen. I have money. I have money. It's buried out here.

00:10:38.620 It's... It's 80 million dollars. How about it, Hank? Should I let you go?

00:10:48.940 My name is Asak Schrader. You can go f*** yourself.

00:10:57.340 Hank, listen to me. You gotta tell him. You gotta tell him now that we can work this out.

00:11:04.960 Please. Please. Please. What? You want me to beg?

00:11:14.260 You're the smartest guy I ever met. And you're too stupid to see.

00:11:22.500 You made up his mind 10 minutes ago. Do what you're gonna do.

00:11:25.680 This guy, Daniel Penny, he's obviously extremely courageous. He's a very accomplished guy.

00:11:37.980 He seems not to realize that the liberal mob made up its mind 10 minutes ago.

00:11:44.140 There's no amount of, I'm not a racist, I'm not a racist, that could ever convince AOC

00:11:48.640 to lay off the attacks. Nobody seriously believes, no even semi-serious person believes that Daniel

00:11:56.200 Penny is a racist. No even semi-serious person believes that there is structural racism or white

00:12:02.060 supremacy or any of this other nonsense in America. That's obviously not true. You can be an axe-wielding,

00:12:07.860 blowtorch-wearing, wielding black man who sets Berkeley students on fire. You'll get off without jail 0.99

00:12:13.020 time. That is how not white supremacist our country is, okay? That is how not white privilege

00:12:20.420 affirming our country is. It's a farce. It's a joke. We live in a country where the only de jure

00:12:27.540 structural racism is to give advantage to black people and to a lesser degree Hispanic people

00:12:34.480 in university admissions and job hiring and to give, and to discriminate against white people

00:12:42.180 and to a lesser degree Asian people in those same things. Nobody seriously believes this. It's just

00:12:47.320 a cudgel. It's just a weapon to be used. And so now to Daniel Penny's credit, he was asked,

00:12:55.820 would you do it again? And he said, yes. He said, you know, I live an authentic and genuine life

00:13:00.140 and I would, if there was a threat and danger in the present, I would do it again. So he's not

00:13:07.040 totally backing off and saying, I regret this. Please mob, please forgive me. Obviously not. He's a

00:13:12.160 very courageous guy. But this, I'm not a racist, I'm not a racist defense is not going to work.

00:13:19.460 It's preposterous that this guy should even be expected to debase himself by answering that

00:13:25.520 question. Are you a racist? He's a United States Marine who protected a subway car full of innocent

00:13:32.060 people. If I can judge by every subway car I've ever been on, probably people of all sorts of races

00:13:38.700 and all sorts of backgrounds. He's not convincing anybody with that defense. You will not convince

00:13:47.380 anybody by saying, I'm not a racist. The libs want to call you a racist. Let the libs call you 0.98

00:13:51.120 whatever ism and phobia and whatever nonsense they want to call you. You should not even dignify that

00:13:58.180 with a response. Meanwhile, the civil rights movement has moved way past race. Now the civil

00:14:05.100 rights fad du jour is of course the alleged civil right to chop your genitals off and to barge into 0.97

00:14:11.600 the women's locker room, into the women's bathroom, even if you're a hulking dude. So there are laws around 1.00

00:14:17.260 the country in states that Republicans control, attempting to protect women and protect their

00:14:23.400 rights and their privileges and their spaces. And the pro-trans crowd is becoming violent. They're

00:14:30.200 not becoming violent. They are violent. And they are expressing this violence time and time and time

00:14:35.460 again. This just happened in the Nebraska state house. Troopers had to arrest six people in the

00:14:42.280 Nebraska state capitol for a number of different events. One of which was caught on security camera.

00:14:48.340 We have the footage and it's one of these pro-trans people punching a cop in the face. And then the

00:14:54.720 cops take down the pro-trans dude and all the rest of these miscreant looking people. Doesn't arrest 0.99

00:15:01.940 all of them. Probably they should, but arrests the ones who were becoming particularly violent.

00:15:06.360 What do we make of this? Do we conclude, oh wow, look at the hypocrisy. Do we conclude, oh wow,

00:15:12.580 if the shoe were on the other foot. No, no, we all know that already. The lesson to be drawn from

00:15:18.960 the insurrection at the Nebraska state house. Oh, I'm sorry. No, wonderful civil rights movement.

00:15:25.160 When pro-trans activists become violent and start punching cops in the face, that's a wonderful 1.00

00:15:31.260 movement for civil rights. That's an expression of our sacred democracy. John Adams and George

00:15:36.800 Washington, they would be standing up and applauding in heaven. But when Midwestern grannies 1.00

00:15:41.680 take selfies in the Capitol rotunda, that of course is the worst terrorist attack ever on US soil.

00:15:47.960 That's a near coup d'etat that almost shredded the constitution. Try to keep up. Now, what do we

00:15:53.200 conclude? We conclude that the next time the Democrats try to push their January 6th narrative

00:16:03.380 or whatever, I'm sorry, their January 6th, the worst day in the history of politics.

00:16:10.540 The next time that the liberals try to push that for the next January 6th, for the next one of these

00:16:17.000 preposterous media narratives, don't buy it. It was always nonsense. There is no even standard that

00:16:27.860 is being applied. If the libs can argue that there is white supremacy and that black men are being

00:16:38.240 hunted down and rounded up by the police and by the roving Ku Klux Klan, I'm not sure there's a single

00:16:44.640 actual member left of the Ku Klux Klan. If there are any, I assume they're all federal agents spying

00:16:49.600 on each other. If the libs can seriously argue that in the year of our Lord, 2023, then they will

00:16:55.400 argue anything. If the libs can seriously argue that a man is a woman, they're going to argue 1.00

00:17:00.060 anything. Okay? So we don't need to take that seriously. This is my message to the people in the

00:17:07.120 middle, the center left, center right, little bit squishy kind of people. There is no credibility here.

00:17:13.680 When NBC and CNN and they all run the next January 6th hoax, just don't buy it. It's not real. They

00:17:21.540 don't mean it. It doesn't refer to anything real. It's just propaganda. Now, speaking of transgenderism,

00:17:31.640 we are how many days out? Oh boy, about eight days out from everything being painted rainbow for at least

00:17:39.260 a month. I mean, we're already sort of there. May has now been colonized by the LGBT. That's pre-Pride 1.00

00:17:45.620 month. Then there's June, that's Pride month. Part of July, that's post-Pride month. Then you have

00:17:50.840 October, that's LGBT history month. So we're now coming up on about a quarter of the calendar, or a

00:17:56.040 third of the calendar, rather, that is extremely gay. And Target seems to be leading the way in terms 0.99

00:18:03.380 of retail stores. Target now has a full-on LGBT rainbow trans line. Here is a woman shopping in

00:18:13.020 this section. Target, because I heard that their new Pride collection was out. So let's take a look.

00:18:17.600 This is a special swimsuit. It is invented for tucking. Live, laugh, lesbian. Are they amoebas? 1.00

00:18:25.000 These don't even look like people. Queer, queer. This right here. These are baby clothes. They say 1.00

00:18:32.140 that grooming isn't happening. Then why are there Pride baby onesies? Trans people. 1.00

00:18:38.960 Baby onesies. Not even for little kids, little babies. I don't care if you're queer. Why would 1.00

00:18:44.640 you wear this? This is ugly. Kids go into a Pride parade. You get a little pride skirt for your kid.

00:18:49.840 Super queer. It's like a, it's like a superpower. Honestly, Target, what is going on? This is pretty 1.00

00:18:56.520 disgusting. A whole collection for pride. The tucking bathing suit, though. This is something

00:19:01.060 new. I have yet to see a bathing suit that is for tucking. Tucking. So I was a little unclear

00:19:06.640 on exactly what the, what, and it's what it sounds like. It turns out it's what it sounds like.

00:19:12.400 Target now has women's bathing suits that are meant so that men can hide or disguise their 0.98

00:19:24.360 appendages. And some pro-trans activists are very upset that there aren't enough,

00:19:31.200 there isn't a great, great enough variety of these kinds of women's bathing suits for men. By the way,

00:19:36.080 I have a solution for that. If you're a man and you want to find a bathing suit that allows you to

00:19:40.400 hide or not totally showcase your male genitalia, you can buy a, a men's bathing suit. And then if

00:19:50.520 you, and actually the men's bathing suits are built specifically for that. You don't, it, I know that

00:19:56.660 modern consumerism and capitalism has advanced to such a degree that we have so many options for

00:20:01.880 everything. But you don't, if you're a man, you actually don't need to buy a women's bathing suit

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00:22:45.980 in the other direction here. Target totally embracing transgenderism. Now, you heard in that

00:22:53.520 video of the woman taking the tour of the Target trans department. She says, look, I don't care if 0.99

00:23:00.120 you're queer, but why are you wearing this ugly clothing? And it's a kind of a funny line, but you 1.00

00:23:04.400 see some people seriously say that. They'll say, listen, I don't care if you're trans. I don't care

00:23:09.280 if you're a man who identifies as a woman. Just don't do it to the kids. Why not? Why not do it 1.00

00:23:17.420 to the kids? Yeah, we shouldn't do it to the kids. Why shouldn't we do it to the kids? Because it's

00:23:23.500 obviously a false ideology because men can't really become women because it's terribly harmful to

00:23:29.100 people and it chops up their bodies and rips flesh off their forearms and off their calves and

00:23:34.440 creates a permanent wound that's going to hook them on medical treatments for the rest of their lives

00:23:38.980 that are going to really harm their bone density. That's going to probably cripple them or very

00:23:43.540 likely could cripple them. That's going to maybe render them sterile. That's going to give them all 0.97

00:23:47.820 sorts of problems because they're very high rates of regret. There's a new data set, largest data set

00:23:53.800 on this issue we've ever seen that shows rates of transition regret and detransition are not the

00:24:00.060 one or two percent that we've been told by the libs, but actually as high as 30 percent. Boy, that's

00:24:04.060 pretty scary. Why else? Because it's tied to anxiety and depression and suicidality and because

00:24:10.460 the transition process, hormonal and surgical, does not fix any of those problems. In fact,

00:24:16.940 the largest data set we have on that particular question shows that those particular mental

00:24:22.180 problems that go along with the transition process don't get any better and in fact on one

00:24:26.320 of them it appears to get worse on the question of anxiety. So that would be all the reasons why we

00:24:29.920 shouldn't do it to kids. But if all that's true, why are we doing it to adults? Why are we permitting

00:24:37.480 this? We never permitted this before at any kind of scale in our culture. Why would we start now?

00:24:44.100 Well, this is America and in America you should be able to have a doctor chop off your genitals. 1.00

00:24:47.740 That's never been true. That is never, no one thought that. My opinion, my public opinion on

00:24:53.520 transgenderism, they call me a genocidal maniac because I said we shouldn't tolerate this. My public

00:24:58.880 opinion on transgenderism is no different from Barack Obama's in 2014, okay? Who are the radicals 0.70

00:25:05.340 here? Obviously, this ideology is wicked and should be eradicated from public life entirely for the good

00:25:12.820 of all of society and for the good of children and especially though for the good of the poor people

00:25:17.000 who fall in prey to that confusion. Where does the ideology come from? I have suggested and I have

00:25:25.420 been criticized and even mocked, would you believe it, for suggesting this. I have suggested that

00:25:31.880 attacks on the complementarity of the sexes and on the integrity of the human person, body, and soul

00:25:37.640 have not just a biological foundation, not even just an ideological foundation, but a spiritual

00:25:43.420 foundation. I've suggested that going all the way back to the Garden of Eden, that damned old devil,

00:25:48.580 all of his little demons, they really hate human beings and really try to mess with us and our

00:25:55.920 understanding of ourselves. This is the traditional understanding of spiritual warfare in our

00:26:02.000 civilization and I've been mocked for that. Michael, you crazy, satanic panic. You're a maniac,

00:26:09.140 Michael, for suggesting that Satanism has something to do with this ideology. So,

00:26:13.720 just on this example, we're talking about Target, we're talking about their new pro-trans clothing

00:26:18.880 line. Who do you think designed the clothes? I mean, the actual people who designed the clothes.

00:26:28.900 This guy, this guy whose handle on Instagram is AB Pralineuk. He's this, you can see here,

00:26:35.800 he's got a mustache and a piercing in the middle of his nose. 99.9% of the time, dead giveaway,

00:26:44.720 something's going on here. And he's got these horns, these kind of demon devil goat horns on his head

00:26:50.100 and a leather collar on. And then he's got this demon devil goat head on his shirt and it says,

00:26:54.640 Satan respects pronouns with a trans logo. Trans logo is a combination of the female logo and the male 0.92

00:27:00.800 logo and then both of them together sticking out. If you look on your iPhone right now,

00:27:05.800 I tried to post the male and female emojis recently and I realized they're gone.

00:27:11.060 At least from my iPhone, they're gone. And they've been replaced by the trans icon. 1.00

00:27:16.720 You're seeing this transgender ideology everywhere in the culture.

00:27:21.160 And at least one of the guys designing the clothing is literally a Satanist.

00:27:26.020 I know people laugh, but that's the way it is. This guy posts online, on his Instagram and elsewhere.

00:27:36.740 He says, this has been hard to keep quiet. I'm now proud to announce that you can buy

00:27:40.820 AB Pralineuk and U.S. Targets. Part one of the range includes a messenger bag of tote

00:27:46.100 and a sweatshirt. Okay, cool. Wow, that's great. One of my favorite and most popular designs.

00:27:51.160 Here it is. And then he says, Satan loves you and respects who you are. You're important and

00:27:56.300 valuable in this world and you deserve to treat yourself with love and respect. LGBT plus people

00:28:00.640 are often referred to as a product of Satan or going against God's will. So fine, we'll hang

00:28:04.600 with Satan instead. Now then he clarifies. He says, Satanists don't actually believe in Satan.

00:28:11.060 He's merely used as a symbol of passion, pride, and liberty. He means to you what you mean to him.

00:28:15.920 So for me, Satan is hope, compassion, equality, and love. So naturally, Satan respects pronouns. 0.97

00:28:21.400 He loves all LGBT plus people. I went with a variation of Baphomet, another demon. For this 1.00

00:28:26.640 design, a deity who themselves is a mixture of genders, beings, ideas, and existences. They reject

00:28:32.360 binary stereotypes and expectations. Perfect. Okay, so I got in trouble with our publicists over at

00:28:37.820 Media Matters for making this exact point. I said, depictions of the demonic tend toward

00:28:43.660 transgender depictions. And we see this most especially in the depiction of Baphomet,

00:28:48.840 which is, there's a particular drawing of Baphomet by an occultist named Eliphas Levy.

00:28:54.460 And he's half dude and half chick, jumbled up in a way that's really messed up. 0.97

00:28:58.540 And I was attacked for saying that. Here's a pro-trans Satanist himself designing Target's trans 0.66

00:29:06.240 line who's saying, Michael, you're exactly right. You're exactly right, even in the example that you're

00:29:11.100 using. I love that when he says, he goes, look, we worship Satan. We love Satan. We use satanic

00:29:15.580 imagery everywhere. But we don't, we don't really worship Satan. We're really just worshiping

00:29:20.520 ourselves and our own base desires and our pride. Uh-huh. Yeah.

00:29:28.520 That's what Satanism has always been. That's what Satanism has been going back to the Garden of Eden

00:29:36.820 when the promise from the serpent to Eve was, ye shall be as gods. Do what you want to do.

00:29:46.260 Don't follow what God told you to do. Do what you want to do. And ye shall be as gods. That has

00:29:51.880 always been what Satanism is. We need much broader freedom of association in this country

00:30:04.520 because as of now, we are told that if you don't support this, like Baphomet dude wearing pins that

00:30:15.080 say trans witches for abortion and all this kind of very demonic imagery, if you don't do that, 0.64

00:30:19.780 you'll get in trouble with the civil rights division. You'll get in trouble with the EEOC.

00:30:24.160 You'll get in trouble with the NLR, but you will, you will have your life ruined if you say,

00:30:28.300 actually, we're, we are going to discriminate at our business. We're not going to have the pro-trans 0.96

00:30:33.540 line. We're not going to accept Satanism as a religious expression. We're not going to accept

00:30:39.760 this false anthropology. We're not going to let dudes dress up like chicks. We're not going to allow 1.00

00:30:43.760 that. You'll have your business destroyed. We need far greater freedom of association in this

00:30:51.080 country. The country is premised in large part on freedom of association. Freedom of association

00:30:56.020 has been severely hampered in recent decades. And what the libs always say is that if you

00:31:00.520 reinstitute freedom of association, people are going to target black people. Oh, the black people 1.00

00:31:06.220 are going to bear the brunt. Does anyone seriously believe that? Does anybody in America,

00:31:10.660 do you, a business owner, are you planning to say, oh, I'm never going to hire black people 1.00

00:31:17.100 anymore? I'm never going to let black people into my business? Of course not. Of course not. 1.00

00:31:22.420 Now, how about on the flip side? Does anybody really believe that we have an obligation as Americans

00:31:28.080 to exalt witchcraft and Satanism and a false anthropology? I don't think so.

00:31:34.980 I do not think so. But the companies are stuck right now. Transheiser Bush is 0.99

00:31:40.460 in hot water. Transheiser Bush just had the worst thing happen to it that could possibly happen to

00:31:46.460 it. You know that the sales for Bud Light have been declining dramatically. And that's true of even

00:31:52.100 other AB InBev beverages, Bud Heavy and other beers. Now, it's started to level off for the other

00:31:59.100 companies. They're still declining in sales, but the rate at which they're declining has leveled off.

00:32:04.560 For Bud Light, though, it's just a precipitous drop. And now, on top of that, Transheiser Bush

00:32:10.780 has just lost its perfect score from the human rights campaign that's a pro-LGBT organization

00:32:15.960 from their corporate equality index. And why did they lose their perfect score? Because Transheiser 0.99

00:32:21.740 Bush tried to stand in the middle of the road, and they're going to get hit by a truck. And they

00:32:24.560 just did get hit by a truck. They tried to have it both ways. So they irritated the customer base,

00:32:29.260 which has now abandoned it. And they've irritated the Gestapo over there at the human rights campaign.

00:32:37.960 And it's not just this one group. It's the institutional investors. It's the major asset

00:32:42.520 managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. It's GARM. It's the industry-wide coalition that says

00:32:49.100 that we are going to support transgenderism, and we're going to suppress speech that opposes

00:32:53.340 transgenderism. And so now, because they didn't defend Dylan Mulvaney hard enough, 0.51

00:32:59.840 they've lost their perfect score, which is going to hurt them among investors. It's going to hurt

00:33:04.640 them in the eyes of the small group of radical liberal elites who are going to wield corporate

00:33:11.640 power to install their unpopular and absurd ideologies. The transgender stuff is obviously not 1.00

00:33:19.120 coming from the people. This is not a grassroots movement. The vast majority of Americans think

00:33:24.000 transgenderism is totally bunk. And an even greater vast majority of Americans don't want the ideology 1.00

00:33:29.440 anywhere near their kids. So this is not just power to the people. We're finally going to have our rights

00:33:34.220 to chop our genitals off. This is coming from a radical, small group of elites. And so it's ironic

00:33:40.040 that the Associated Press right now, which is a very far left, increasingly far left news organization,

00:33:45.520 has come out and said that it's actually the anti-trans activism that is coming from a small

00:33:50.080 group of elites. The AP says, with more than a dozen states enacting laws limiting gender-affirming

00:33:56.360 care, means gender-denying care, for transgender minors, namely confused kids who are being abused by

00:34:03.340 the adults around them, an AP analysis found that many of those bills stemmed not from a grassroots

00:34:07.920 movement, but from a handful of conservative interest groups' model legislation. And to that I say,

00:34:13.040 yeah, sure, probably. There is more of a grassroots movement against transgenderism,

00:34:21.100 obviously, than there is for transgenderism, because parents are seeing their kids being

00:34:24.840 taught this stuff and are, in a fairly organic way, showing up to school board meetings to protest it.

00:34:30.600 But yeah, it's true. Both of these things are true. There are committed groups with clear

00:34:38.600 political visions who are running political campaigns for and against transgenderism.

00:34:44.660 That's true. That's not a big shock. That's not a huge conspiracy. That is true of every political

00:34:49.560 movement. Every political movement is advanced by a small and determined group of people.

00:34:59.340 Most people just have other things to do, and they don't pay very close attention to politics,

00:35:03.420 and they don't spend all of their life printing out palm cards and campaigning and knocking on doors

00:35:08.120 and showing up to public meetings. It's always, whether we're talking about the Bolsheviks,

00:35:12.620 whether we're talking about the Tea Party, whether we're talking about any political movement ever,

00:35:17.380 it's a small group of people, which is why conservatives need to expand their imagination,

00:35:22.260 okay? Because conservatives, we sometimes think, well, how are we going to convince the median voter,

00:35:26.480 the suburban moms? The libs never think about that. The libs never think, 1.00

00:35:29.560 how are we going to convince American women that their babies aren't really babies and we should 1.00

00:35:34.840 be able to murder them? The libs never think, well, how are we? Oh, goodness, don't we? We might lose

00:35:39.960 the suburbs, the suburban moms, if we try to trans their kindergartners in the public school. They 1.00

00:35:46.120 never, they just go for it. They have a broad political imagination. In fact, that's one of their

00:35:51.460 slogans. They say, some people see things that are and say, why? I dream things that never were and

00:35:55.900 say, why not? It's a line from JFK. His brother RFK used it. Democrats have used it for many,

00:36:00.280 many years. It comes from a socialist playwright. It actually comes from the mouth of the devil

00:36:03.480 in the socialist playwright's play about the Garden of Eden. It ties right in with all the

00:36:08.080 rest of the liberal political vision. But that's what they do. Why don't conservatives do that too?

00:36:13.180 It's a small, determined band of people that persuade the public? Yeah, I guess you're probably

00:36:17.840 right. All right, let's get more determined. Let's get even clearer. Let's keep pushing.

00:36:22.500 My favorite comment on Friday is from Sarah. Sarah says, if a reparations tax is forced on me,

00:36:28.300 I will Boston Tea Party, the SHIT out of it, just a friendly heads up. Good to know. I think a lot

00:36:35.020 of people think that way. And there is a tie-in, both to the racial politics and the drag trans stuff,

00:36:43.560 which is that at that original Boston Tea Party, the colonists who boarded the ships and threw the

00:36:48.760 tea into the river dressed up like Indians. Even though they were very, very white people, 0.98

00:36:52.620 they dressed up like Indians. So who knows? Now, if you're going to Boston Tea Party, 0.98

00:36:58.640 the reparations, I don't know exactly how to do that. Who knows? You'll have many,

00:37:01.460 many more costumes available to you. We're in a much more theatrical and eccentric age.

00:37:07.060 Okay, very important story. As we approach Pride Month, something tells me there's going to be more

00:37:13.940 LGBT stuff in the news. There is a Nebraska state senator. Her name is Senator Michaela Kavanaugh.

00:37:21.500 She has made, I think, one of the relatively most articulate arguments in support of the

00:37:28.420 transgender ideology and policies that affirm this ideology that I have ever heard. Senator Kavanaugh,

00:37:33.540 we want to take it away. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. 0.79

00:37:39.100 We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people.

00:37:45.220 Trans people belong here. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.

00:37:51.160 We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.

00:37:54.940 I haven't considered that. We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here.

00:38:00.100 We need trans people. We love trans people. Trans people belong here. We need trans people.

00:38:06.840 She goes on for another like two or three minutes. But I think I've got the broad strokes of the

00:38:12.260 argument. My favorite part of the clip is that no one joined in. She was obviously trying to 0.99

00:38:17.140 start a chant for everybody. It's like a guy who gets up in a baseball game. Here we go, Yankees.

00:38:23.240 Here we go. Here we go, Yankees. Why aren't they joining in? Here we go. Here we go. Okay. All

00:38:29.400 right. Maybe I'll just sit down then. So nobody joined in to the chant. Why did this lady recite 0.99

00:38:36.300 these mantras over and over again? Rather than making an argument, rather than presenting evidence,

00:38:42.100 why did she just chant, we need, we love, we do that. Why did she do that? Because 0.96

00:38:47.700 the left wing political agenda and especially the transgender agenda is less a matter of rational

00:38:58.520 argument and much more a matter of, of occult ecstasy, spiritual ecstasy. It's not just the

00:39:08.760 trans agenda though. It's the climate activism. It's all the rest of it. We need to save the planet.

00:39:14.180 How dare you now? You know, and they just, they just sort of yell and scream and they don't make

00:39:22.180 calm, clear arguments. What is her thesis in this mantra? We need trans people. My first reaction to

00:39:34.320 that was, do we, are we, one, is there any such thing as trans people? I don't think so. Because 1.00

00:39:43.740 the premise of transgenderism is that you can be the opposite sex secretly, but, but, but have the 0.90

00:39:50.080 physical appearance of the other sex. And that isn't true. So we don't, is it, do we have a shortage

00:39:56.240 of trans people? There aren't enough trans people. We need to make more trans people. We need to encourage

00:40:01.580 more people to, to become trans. Well, actually that's what the conservatives are accusing the

00:40:06.380 libs of doing. And the libs are saying, we're not doing that. We're not grooming anybody. We're not

00:40:09.400 encouraging people to do this, but obviously they are. And this woman is admitting that implicitly

00:40:13.620 with her mantra. We need what, even if trans people existed as a real ontological category,

00:40:22.040 which they don't, but let's say they did. What would we need them uniquely to do?

00:40:27.740 Is there something they could, can they fly? Can they read minds? Can they, what special gift

00:40:38.280 does this group of people have that other people don't have? This is the same kind of argument that

00:40:44.880 the libs make. This is a more fantastical version of it, obviously. But this is the same kind of

00:40:48.000 argument that the libs make when they say, we need millions of illegal aliens from Venezuela to come

00:40:52.340 across every year because without them, who will pick our grapes? As though Venezuelans have this 1.00

00:40:58.880 unique ability to pick grapes and no other group of people in the face of the earth can pick grapes.

00:41:04.840 Or what the libs say, they don't even realize how condescending this is. They'll say, we need all

00:41:09.140 these Venezuelans to come across to America because we need them to clean our toilets. Do you think how 1.00

00:41:14.480 offensive is that to Venezuelans and to everybody else? It's offensive to everybody to say this

00:41:20.380 group of people, they are preternaturally gifted at scrubbing toilets. And also every other person

00:41:28.740 on earth, black, white, Asian, other kinds of Hispanic who don't come over in hordes. Those people,

00:41:34.920 they're just not able to do it. They get a scrub brush. They just think, oh, what do I do with this?

00:41:38.700 They rub it on the ceiling. They're, oh, where does this thing go? You know, we don't need, you could

00:41:44.280 make an argument that we want to take more Hispanic migrants across the Rio Grande. We want to do that

00:41:50.620 because of X, Y, and Z. Or we want, you could make the argument, we want people to engage in sexually

00:41:56.140 deviant behaviors or sexually destructive behaviors. You could make that argument, probably wouldn't be

00:42:00.000 very persuasive. See, we need to enshrine this false and destructive ideology in our public life.

00:42:08.440 I don't, just don't really see it. One story I've got to get to before, before we get into our

00:42:17.340 member block today. This is so delightful. It's my favorite story of the day. Michelle Obama.

00:42:25.300 Michelle Obama made her signature initiative when she was first lady, giving students less tasty

00:42:33.520 lunches at school. I said, no, you can't, you can't have pizza. You can't have all these delicious

00:42:38.680 lunches. We're going to, we're going to take away your milk and stuff. We're going to force you to

00:42:41.860 have all this supposedly healthy stuff. School children around America groaned for eight years.

00:42:48.160 So Michelle Obama now has her own health drink. Her health drink is called Plezi, P-L-E-Z-I.

00:42:55.440 According to a new report from Bloomberg, which is a left-wing outlet,

00:42:58.240 Michelle Obama's health drink would fail the health standards set by the Obama administration.

00:43:07.420 Bloomberg discussed with 12 independent health professionals and organizations,

00:43:10.800 they discovered that Plezi's current flavors would not meet the requirements to be served

00:43:15.360 at elementary and middle schools. If that is not the story of liberalism, I don't know what is.

00:43:22.180 Do not do what we say, not what we do. We're going to create one set of rules for everybody else,

00:43:31.840 and then we are going to violate these rules. And we're going to call our behavior more virtuous than

00:43:38.120 anybody else's, even though it is in fact more vicious. If that is not, that's, I might buy some

00:43:44.260 Plezi. Just, I'm going to frame it. I could put it up in my office. That sums it up. A Michelle Obama

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 22, 2023

Ep. 1251 - Target Is Targeting Your Kids With These Trans Clothes

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