The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1259 - Biden Falls Hard And Can't Get Up

00:00:00.000 President Biden fell yesterday. Not just a little stumble, not just a little tumble,

00:00:05.080 a full-on fall during the Air Force Academy graduation.

00:00:11.760 All right, Biden, shake hands, he goes down, all the way down. Not Chevy Chase doing

00:00:20.680 Jerry Ford on SNL, all the way down. Has to be helped up by three men.

00:00:25.480 And he points back at something on the floor, which is kind of funny. He turns back,

00:00:32.620 he says like, oh, it was that Pebble's fault. But it's ultimately not funny. It's sad.

00:00:39.560 And it's not even news. That's why I had to play it. It's not really making news. But it was a bad

00:00:47.460 fall and it's not news. And that's really weird. It's not news because we've come to expect it.

00:00:51.440 We've come to expect it and we've come to accept it. The president is mentally and physically

00:00:57.440 falling apart. The president refuses to campaign for re-election. He didn't even campaign last time

00:01:05.740 for his first term, for his administration. We've reached a new stage of national scandal.

00:01:14.140 It is not just that we don't have a functional president, that our political system is not

00:01:19.020 run the way it's supposed to be run. And it's not even just that our rulers have ceased to pretend

00:01:25.300 that the government is run the way it's supposed to be run. The most scandalous part of all

00:01:30.720 is that we all know it. We joke about it openly on the left and on the right.

00:01:37.180 And nobody seems to care. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:40.960 Welcome back to the show. In just a moment, forget about politics. Forget about this crazy

00:01:54.360 event that involved The Daily Wire on Twitter last night. We have a follow-up to that Toronto

00:02:02.840 Blue Jays player who totally turned his back on his beliefs and apologized for criticizing Pride

00:02:09.000 Month. That guy got a very nasty reaction from the crowd. We'll get to that in one moment.

00:02:14.700 First, though, the president can't function. He can't speak. He doesn't know which end is up. He

00:02:21.580 can't walk. And he's not campaigning. Peter Doocy, one of the few conservatives in the White House

00:02:26.020 press pool, asked the president's press secretary about this. Is this guy at any point in the campaign

00:02:32.000 going to actually hit the campaign trail?

00:02:34.080 It's been more than a month since the re-election announcement. Is President Biden going to hold

00:02:39.400 a campaign event ever?

00:02:42.660 So I will say this to you, Peter, as you know, we follow the rule of law here. We believe in

00:02:49.080 following the rule of law as it relates. Hold on. As it relates.

00:02:52.280 I'm about to answer your question here. As it relates to anything that is connected to the campaign,

00:03:03.220 any rallies, any events, any endorsement, anything that is connected to the 2024 re-election,

00:03:10.060 that is not going to certainly come from here, that is going to come from his campaign and or the DNC.

00:03:16.040 So what Karine Jean-Pierre is using to evade this question is the Hatch Act, is the idea that

00:03:23.720 government workers are not allowed to engage in explicitly campaign-related political activity.

00:03:29.700 So when Peter Doocy says, hey, is he going to hit the campaign trail? She says, well,

00:03:32.500 I'm not allowed to talk about the campaign. But that's obviously not true because the White House,

00:03:37.880 while it can't maybe talk about the inner workings of any presidential campaign,

00:03:42.580 can at least talk about whether or not the guy's going to do it. The White House press secretary can

00:03:46.640 at least talk about the president's schedule. Is he thinking about making a stop over in Iowa?

00:03:50.840 Is he thinking about maybe traveling to New Hampshire? Oh, no, Peter, I'm not going to answer that.

00:03:54.800 Because the answer is no. The president right now has no intention of seriously campaigning.

00:03:59.300 And why would he? He doesn't need to campaign. If he didn't need to campaign last time,

00:04:03.920 he doesn't need to campaign this time. If last time Joe Biden could hide out in his basement

00:04:07.960 and occasionally hold an event or two with 18 people and do the rest of the campaign virtually,

00:04:15.040 then certainly he can do that for re-election when his only challenges are Marianne Williamson,

00:04:18.960 the new agey lady, the hippie, dippy, dark psychic forces lady, that she's not going to pose a real 1.00

00:04:25.280 challenge. And Bobby Kennedy Jr., who is a Kennedy, so you'd think that he could pose something of a

00:04:31.620 challenge. He's a committed liberal in the 1960s fashion, but the Democrats and the progressives

00:04:36.860 have moved on from that 1960s style liberalism. So he's not going to really pose a serious challenge

00:04:42.020 to Joe Biden. So why not? Well, you might say, well, he needs to start campaigning now to build

00:04:46.660 the narrative for the general election, whether it's Trump, whether it's DeSantis, whether it's

00:04:50.660 Chris Christie, who we all know is going to be the nominee because the chrysons, the chrysons is upon

00:04:54.720 us. But regardless of who that is, shouldn't Joe Biden start his campaign now? No. Why would he?

00:05:01.100 What's the campaign? The campaign is we're going to maintain the power structure exactly as it is

00:05:06.180 without accountability and you can deal with it. The campaign in 2024 is going to be, we're going to

00:05:12.740 harvest ballots. We're going to get our machine going. We're going to have widespread mail in

00:05:17.740 ballots and we're going to hope that we can squeak by. That's that. Even though Joe Biden has historic

00:05:24.220 levels of unpopularity, even though the country's falling apart on every single front, he doesn't

00:05:29.800 need to campaign, which is not just a knock on Joe Biden. The fact that Biden's falling down all the

00:05:34.960 time and can't speak is not just a knock on Joe Biden. It just, it describes an aspect of the

00:05:39.920 political system that is especially corrupt and especially decayed. Not only is, is the government

00:05:48.220 working in a way that's not in accordance with Schoolhouse Rock, a bill up on Capitol Hill, the

00:05:52.500 U.S. Constitution, all the rest of it. And not only, or is the government not pretending otherwise

00:05:59.860 anymore? Not only is the government transparent about that, but we all know it and we are not

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00:07:29.600 Last night, I feel like I haven't left my desk. We were here. We were supposed to do a very simple

00:07:36.100 what is a woman release for the one year anniversary of Matt's movie. The movie was such a big success.

00:07:42.880 We were going to do a one year anniversary celebration and air it for everybody on Twitter,

00:07:46.940 free for 24 hours, not just for the members, but for everybody to celebrate the movie, to celebrate

00:07:53.360 Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, to celebrate that one of the big tech platforms is now going to endorse

00:07:57.280 free speech. Okay, great. And then we're working with Twitter on all of this. And then we're told

00:08:01.680 by the trust and safety team, no, sorry, actually, we're going to not only not work with you on this

00:08:07.920 event, we're going to suppress the movie if you put it up onto Twitter. He said, what? What happened

00:08:14.040 to free speech? What happened to the big conservatives having a voice now on Twitter? What about that?

00:08:20.280 That was gone. Okay. So we were a little confused. We said, we're going to go ahead with our event.

00:08:24.000 If Twitter wants to suppress it, okay. Elon's sending us mixed messages here. I don't really

00:08:28.360 understand what's going on here, but okay, whatever. We air it and it is suppressed.

00:08:32.840 And then Elon starts responding. And then we get a report that the head of the trust and safety team

00:08:41.480 over at Twitter resigns or is fired, but we're still being suppressed. And we just don't know

00:08:51.060 what on earth is going on. Elon starts responding to us personally. He responds to a tweet that I posted

00:08:58.560 a tweet kind of throwing a little bit of subtle shade at Twitter. Elon liked that tweet. He was

00:09:04.580 responding to Jordan Peterson. Jordan was here last night. He's responding to the Daily Wire,

00:09:08.980 but it was still unclear what exactly is going on. Then this morning, this morning, Elon Musk tweets

00:09:15.300 out the movie and he says, every parent should watch this movie. And when we said, well, hold on,

00:09:22.360 what is this? Elon had a great response. Elon said, the controversy will drive views. And Jordan

00:09:31.120 responds to him and says, you are a complicated person, which is very, very true because we didn't

00:09:37.400 know at the moment. Is this Elon got outfoxed or Elon didn't know about this? Is this Elon did know

00:09:46.040 about this and he's a hypocrite about free speech? Is this Elon playing 4D chess and generating some

00:09:53.400 kind of controversy and having an excuse now to can part of his liberal apparatchik trust and safety

00:09:59.580 team? What is going on? It's still unclear to me, though the result has been wonderful. And so great

00:10:07.040 on Elon, great on Twitter to get this message out to say on Twitter right now, not only can you say that

00:10:12.780 a man is a man and a woman is a woman, but you can expose the gender ideology for what it is. Not only

00:10:20.640 does this vindicate the purchase of Twitter. Don't forget, Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign

00:10:26.300 on Twitter, in Twitter spaces, some days ago. Ron DeSantis' campaign is running against wokeness. And then

00:10:34.960 all of a sudden, Twitter comes out and says, you're not allowed to say that a man is a man and a woman is a

00:10:39.140 woman. The specific reason they told us that they were going to suppress our video was

00:10:42.620 two specific instances of misgendering in the movie. That is, calling a girl a girl and a boy

00:10:49.220 a boy. In one case, a father who referred to his daughter as she, and he's in jail for that in Canada.

00:10:58.320 We're flummoxed. We don't know exactly what did it, but all's well that ends well. This was a great

00:11:04.000 ending. And you've got to also remember what kind of a tough position Elon Musk is in.

00:11:08.120 This is the point I've been making since the beginning.

00:11:12.240 Elon Musk is not just fighting against some woke employees at Twitter. Elon Musk is fighting

00:11:17.580 against an entire, not only national system, but international system of censorship. Elon Musk is

00:11:23.340 fighting against GARM, that censorship wing that has now been incorporated into the World Economic

00:11:28.720 Forum, an industry-wide multinational program to enforce transgenderism and radical environmentalism 0.93

00:11:36.420 and all the rest of the leftist ideology. Elon Musk is fighting against the advertisers. Elon Musk is

00:11:43.220 fighting against the market. Elon Musk is fighting against major asset managers. He's fighting against

00:11:48.920 a whole system here. Twitter today is worth one-third of what it was worth when Elon Musk bought it.

00:11:55.620 Elon Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter. It's worth one-third of that today. Twitter was already,

00:12:00.120 before he bought it, on a path of almost inevitable bankruptcy. So the guy is under a lot of pressure.

00:12:07.840 And if he can finagle his way to keep Twitter as a free speech platform, or forget about free speech,

00:12:15.880 I don't even care all that much about totally free speech. What I care about is the ability to tell the

00:12:20.500 truth. Those are different things. It's good to have free speech, okay, but none of us actually

00:12:27.840 supports total free speech. This is the point of my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling

00:12:30.920 Minds. Everybody, hello, thank you. That was actually pretty quick today. Every society has

00:12:35.640 taboos and standards and norms. What we want, at the very least, though, is the freedom to tell the

00:12:40.260 truth, which was previously suppressed, now available on Twitter. Speaking of top executives,

00:12:47.840 and speaking of Ron DeSantis, by the way, who launched his campaign on Twitter, Ron DeSantis

00:12:51.960 is not doing great right now. He's not doing great against Donald Trump. According to the latest poll

00:13:02.240 numbers, DeSantis' announcement did not close the gap between him and Trump. Trump still has a 34-point

00:13:09.500 lead in the race. Trump's lead is down a little bit from a 43-point lead. But that constriction of

00:13:18.420 the poll numbers appears to have happened before Ron DeSantis' presidential announcement.

00:13:25.220 So I think DeSantis is a great governor. I think he's got a very strong message. I think he's

00:13:32.000 obviously an extremely intelligent, competent guy. He's one of the most conservative presidential

00:13:35.920 candidates we've seen in my lifetime. I'm not disparaging him. I'm just describing a fact.

00:13:42.400 His announcement didn't work. It hasn't moved the needle. The delta between him and Trump is just

00:13:47.440 so massive. There's just some intangible, ineffable, je ne sais quoi about the Trump campaign that the

00:13:58.000 DeSantis campaign has not yet figured out how to crack, despite really targeted attacks. Trump handing

00:14:04.500 the country over to Fauci, really targeted attacks on some of Trump's picks and decisions throughout his

00:14:11.040 administration. Still hasn't quite done it. Trump just gave a response on the campaign trail that I

00:14:20.260 think helps to get at why Trump seems untouchable, why he's the Teflon Don. Trump was asked about

00:14:28.800 wokeness. Wokeness, that's that word on the right. We're all just beating the hell out of wokeness. 0.87

00:14:34.940 We hate wokeness. And that's persuading a lot of moderates and people in the middle. Wokeness 0.92

00:14:40.600 has got to end. Here's Trump's answer on wokeness. It's gone sick. And I don't like the term woke

00:14:46.620 because I hear woke, woke, woke. You know, it's like just a term that use half the people can't

00:14:50.140 even define it. They don't know what it is. As is often the case, while everybody is zigging,

00:14:56.640 Donald Trump is zagging. The guy is contrarian, not just with the broader culture. He's contrarian

00:15:02.880 even with the right, the conservative movement, the Republican Party. In part, we should expect

00:15:08.180 this because the guy didn't spend his life in the conservative movement of the Republican Party.

00:15:12.880 And so on this one, this is the easiest softball. Oh yeah, wokeness bad. He says,

00:15:17.660 I don't like that term. It's kind of a silly term. No one can really define it. And you know what?

00:15:23.460 He's kind of right. He's kind of right. We use the term as a shorthand to refer to the extreme

00:15:29.980 leftists. But a lot of people who regularly use that term can't really define it. You'll notice

00:15:39.540 on my show, I tend, and in my writing and in my speeches, I tend to refer to the libs.

00:15:46.220 I don't refer to the wokies, the wokesters, the leftists exclusively. Mostly I refer to the libs

00:15:55.280 because there's a big debate on the right between is wokism a betrayal of liberalism or is wokism the

00:16:04.840 logical conclusion of liberalism? And not just modern progressive liberalism. There's another

00:16:09.240 big debate on the right, which is, is modern progressive leftism a betrayal of liberalism,

00:16:15.780 an illiberal kind of liberalism? Or is modern progressive leftism the logical conclusion of

00:16:22.040 liberalism? And the more libertarian types, the more classical liberal identifying types,

00:16:28.220 they say the former. And the conservatives and the traditionalists and the old school right-wingers,

00:16:35.640 we say it's the latter. We say this wokism stuff, this was always going to be the consequence of 1.00

00:16:43.400 liberalism. Just look at transgenderism. You have the classical liberals who say transgenderism,

00:16:50.140 it's a betrayal, not only of liberalism, but even of the gay rights movement. It's a betrayal of all, 0.97

00:16:55.820 it's a betrayal of feminism. But the conservatives, we say, no, it's the logical conclusion of it.

00:17:01.140 Because if men and women are pretty much the same, then you're going to get transgenderism. 0.98

00:17:05.740 Feminism says men and women are basically the same. And so you get the gay rights movement, 0.70

00:17:08.880 the gay rights movement then gives you the redefinition of marriage, redefinition of marriage 0.83

00:17:12.420 then gets you transgenderism. Because all of it says that men and women are pretty much interchangeable. 0.51

00:17:16.740 That's a consequence of liberalism, this flattening liberalism, which says that we're not born into

00:17:22.920 particular roles and duties, some of which are unchosen, many of which are unchosen. We have

00:17:27.500 an obligation to them regardless, into certain circumstances, into communities that we didn't

00:17:32.300 choose, but we have an obligation to them anyway. That's what the conservatives believe.

00:17:36.500 The liberals just focus on that hyper-individualism. You can do whatever you want,

00:17:40.160 just don't hurt anybody or scare the horses. Okay, well, that's what the liberals say,

00:17:44.020 but that liberalism is going to inevitably lead you to wokeism. And what Trump is saying here

00:17:49.180 is that term, I don't know, you just want to avoid it. You just want to avoid talking about

00:17:54.440 how liberalism is bad, but I'm not going to. And so what does Trump say? He says it's not just that

00:17:58.780 the crazy trans stuff is bad, it's that free trade can be bad. It's not just that the crazy trans stuff 1.00

00:18:04.980 is bad, it's that the free movement of peoples across borders can be very bad.

00:18:09.640 It's not just that the trans stuff is really bad, it's that the upending of all of our traditions, 1.00

00:18:17.180 many of which can't be written down on a napkin in some rationalist treatise.

00:18:21.020 The upending of our saluting the flag and having hot dogs on the 4th of July and just doing things

00:18:27.380 the way we used to do them because of sheer tradition and prejudice. Prejudice in the good

00:18:32.060 sense of that word. We just kind of do it out of a prejudgment, out of a gut instinct.

00:18:35.480 That that rationalism is bad too. Trump is expressing a deeply conservative impulse that is

00:18:44.820 frankly much more in line with what conservatism has meant going back to the French Revolution,

00:18:51.680 going back to Edmund Burke up through much of the American old right before it was taken over by

00:18:56.780 the libs. I think that is part of that je ne sais quoi. I think that is why a lot of other candidates,

00:19:02.040 even very impressive candidates like Ron DeSantis, haven't quite caught up with him yet.

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00:22:16.260 if the corporations actually believed in the gay ideology, I dare them to advocate for it in their 1.00

00:22:21.000 Middle East divisions or in China. It's a good observation because it's only the Western 1.00

00:22:26.020 iterations of the brands that put on the rainbow in June. The ones in Saudi Arabia don't change their

00:22:34.080 logos to be rainbows or in China or elsewhere. But I don't want this to make people complacent

00:22:41.000 because the argument or the point of that argument is that this pride stuff doesn't really change the

00:22:48.260 culture. It's just a kind of a rainbow facade on the same old system that doesn't really change.

00:22:52.600 But that isn't quite true. Yes, the corporations themselves are not going in and changing their

00:22:58.260 logos during this month in those countries. But the West broadly is. The United States, the State

00:23:05.280 Department, the NGOs, all of these non-governmental busybody organizations, imperial organizations

00:23:12.660 from the West do go into these countries. And they will often tie aid dollars. They will often tie

00:23:19.800 all sorts of support, military support even, to liberalizing policies, especially policies regarding

00:23:29.440 sex and gender and this radical sexual revolution ideology. So that does happen. It's just not the

00:23:37.700 conservatives or the corporations rather who are at the vanguard of that. It's often the State

00:23:41.100 Department and the NGOs. But the corporations do follow. Make no mistake, the West is pushing the

00:23:47.440 rainbow. In many ways, the rainbow has become the imperial flag of the West. Just as the Star

00:23:54.020 Spangled Banner is the national flag of the United States, so too the pride flag, the pride progress flag

00:23:59.760 increasingly, is the imperial flag of the liberal West. Now, speaking of the presidential candidates,

00:24:08.840 we've got a new candidate in the race. Not officially yet, but we've had the official

00:24:13.560 announcement of the impending official announcement. Which candidate is it? I'm not talking about Chris

00:24:19.280 Christie. I'm not talking about the Chris Assange. That hasn't happened yet. I'm talking about

00:24:22.760 Mike Pence. Mike Pence, according to reports, will announce his run at a rally-style event in Des Moines,

00:24:31.320 Iowa next Wednesday, according to sources familiar with Pence's plans. A lot of people don't think that

00:24:39.700 Mike Pence has a chance in this race, looking at the poll numbers. A lot of people might say,

00:24:44.580 oh, Mike Pence is a really nice guy, but the numbers just aren't there for him. What is Mike Pence's

00:24:49.860 lane? Mike Pence does have a lane. It's narrow. It probably is not going to be successful. But in a

00:24:57.500 presidential race, anything can happen, especially when you consider that they might throw Trump in

00:25:02.120 prison. There are at least three locales that are trying to put Trump in prison right now. Probably

00:25:08.120 more to come. Ron DeSantis is very well tested, very impressive at the state level, but he's not

00:25:14.860 totally tested at the national stage. Anything could happen. Everyone thought Jeb Bush was going to be

00:25:18.880 the nominee in 2016. Jeb obviously did not become the nominee. So DeSantis could Jeb out. Who knows?

00:25:25.420 And then we're in a whole new ballgame. What is Pence's lane? His lane is Iowa. He's got to hit

00:25:31.960 Iowa really, really hard. He's got to win over the evangelical base. In some ways, this was the

00:25:40.220 Cruz campaign strategy in 2016. Go hard after Iowa. Go hard after the evangelical base, which worked.

00:25:48.360 Cruz did win Iowa. Cruz was the number two guy in 2016. Pence could do that. And then Pence has

00:25:54.640 something else that helps him out here, which is that Pence is acceptable to the business wing of

00:26:00.820 the GOP. Pence is acceptable to the Chamber of Commerce wing of the GOP. Pence is not going to go

00:26:07.240 hard after corporations. Pence is not going to advocate hard for protective tariffs or anything

00:26:11.860 like that. So that's a real advantage. It's an older model of running for president on the right.

00:26:20.460 It was a model that was powerful in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It's kind of waned in recent years.

00:26:29.440 But it was a model that worked for a long time. And right now, no other candidate in the race can

00:26:33.580 really do that. Tim Scott, maybe to some degree.

00:26:42.640 Nikki Haley, I'm not so sure. I think she's a little bit more ambiguous on that. I don't think

00:26:46.300 Nikki Haley is going to play very well in Iowa. The Vake, obviously, is not going to be running on

00:26:51.160 an evangelical Christian campaign. Chris Christie is not going to be running on an Iowa

00:26:58.520 evangelical Christian campaign. So there is, it's not totally crazy. I wouldn't put my money on Pence

00:27:07.160 becoming the nominee, to put it mildly. But there is a lane. There is a kind of a logic to it. It just

00:27:13.860 requires the GOP to kind of fling back like a rubber band stretched too far in one direction.

00:27:19.920 It would have to fling back to a tried and true strategy. Speaking of traditional views,

00:27:27.500 the Dodgers, the LA Dodgers, who invited this satanic drag troupe, the Sisters of Perpetual 1.00

00:27:33.800 Indulgence, who mock not only Catholic nuns, but mock Christ and the crucifixion and are just not

00:27:40.960 doing good stuff, invited them to be honored for Pride Month at Dodger Stadium. And then there was

00:27:47.160 backlash, so they disinvited them. Then there was backlash to the backlash, so they re-invited them.

00:27:52.200 And now they're going to hold a Christian Faith and Family Day in July. I think they already were

00:27:59.260 hosting that, but they're promoting this now. Okay. Not good enough. Even Bishop Barron, who's a very

00:28:06.560 nice guy, he's a Catholic bishop, very nice guy. He's not really a bomb thrower or anything. He points

00:28:12.000 out, he says, this is just not enough. You know, we cannot accept the LA Dodgers for doing this. We've

00:28:20.780 got to keep the pressure up. We should boycott the LA Dodgers. We should protest the LA Dodgers. We

00:28:26.380 should put the LA Dodgers on the Transheiser Bush, Target, Kohl's list. This is completely unacceptable

00:28:31.180 stuff. And I know that there are going to be people, speaking of that old style Republican

00:28:36.500 politics sort of thing, who are going to be people who say, well, look, can't we just meet in the

00:28:42.680 middle somewhere? Can't we just, we don't, we can't boycott every company. Can't we just, all right,

00:28:47.480 they're going to have the, look, they're going to have the satanic parody of the mass, devil worshiping

00:28:53.840 drag queen's day. But they're also going to have a day where they acknowledge the existence of

00:28:59.380 Christians. So look, isn't that kind of a win? No, no. You can't please everybody. That's always 1.00

00:29:06.820 the case. But you especially can't please everybody during periods of intense division.

00:29:11.120 So when we broadly agree on things, it's easier to please more people more of the time. When we can't

00:29:16.300 agree on anything, when we can't agree on what a woman is, when we can't agree on anthropology,

00:29:19.900 when we can't agree on epistemology, when we can't agree on what good and bad is, when we can't agree

00:29:23.420 on what the role of the state in good and bad is, when we can't agree on language, the meaning of

00:29:27.340 language, then you really can't please everybody all of the time. Then you're, to be politically

00:29:32.900 successful, you're probably only going to please a minority of people. When you live in revolutionary

00:29:37.880 times, which the left has voiced upon us time and time again, but especially now, when you live in

00:29:44.280 revolutionary times, then the way you're going to make political change is to appeal to a minority of

00:29:50.780 people. At all times, it is a minority of people who make revolutionary change. Think of the

00:29:57.600 Bolsheviks who dishonestly presented themselves as a majority. They were a distinct minority of 0.62

00:30:02.520 people. Look at what's going on. The baseball audience is broadly conservative. The people who

00:30:08.720 run baseball are extraordinarily left-wing and they're kowtowing to left-wingers. Well, look what

00:30:13.840 happened. Anthony Bass, the Toronto Blue Jay, he comes out, he criticizes Pride Month. Then there's

00:30:19.120 backlash from his bosses, presumably. So he throws his integrity under the bus. He makes an apology

00:30:24.300 for attacking Pride Month. And then he trots out there onto the field. Listen to how the Blue Jays

00:30:29.520 fans greeted him. So you can hear one boo in particular. And then he trots out there and has a little

00:30:46.880 conversation in shallow left field. Okay. It's still, it's sometimes a little hard to make out what the

00:30:55.520 audience is saying here. But then it becomes a little clearer. He's trotting from shallow left

00:31:03.300 field out to the pitcher's mound. You hear the boos. Why was he booed? He was booed because now nobody

00:31:12.380 supports him. The pro Pride people obviously don't support him. He posted to his Instagram a very clear

00:31:22.360 directed video about how he thinks Pride is evil. The conservatives don't like him. The normal people

00:31:29.500 don't like him because he then threw his integrity under the bus. He said, oh, I'm sorry. I offended.

00:31:36.040 I never wanted to offend anybody. You know, I'm sorry. The Pride community, I support them, blah, blah,

00:31:41.800 blah. Okay. So now he's got nobody. I'm reminded in Dante's Divine Comedy, right at the very beginning

00:31:49.540 of hell are the people who were lukewarm. And they're there. It's not the deepest part of hell.

00:31:53.800 It's not the hottest part of hell. It's, it's in some ways though, even more ignominious because

00:31:59.800 it's, it's the people who are obviously unacceptable to heaven because they have no conviction. They have

00:32:06.440 no integrity. They have no faith. But they're also repulsive to the people in hell. Even hell won't

00:32:13.180 accept these people. They're just to be spit out. They're just so lukewarm. Don't do that.

00:32:21.000 There is nothing ever to be gained by apologizing to an unjust mob. There was one time I was on Fox

00:32:27.580 News and I, uh, I was, I was asked about environmentalism on the left and I said it was

00:32:33.700 unjust that the libs are exploiting a mentally ill Swedish child to promote their totally incoherent 0.92

00:32:39.540 agenda. And the host of that program, Harris Faulkner didn't, she didn't bat an eyelash.

00:32:45.140 This is obviously a true statement. The Democrat who was on the panel, uh, uh, Chris Hahn, he made a

00:32:50.520 big deal about this and yelled and screamed, but still the viewers weren't upset. It was obviously

00:32:54.420 true that, you know, when it came to the case of this gal, Greta Thunberg, her mother actually wrote

00:32:59.000 a book about how this girl had all these sorts of mental problems. And yet she was still being exploited 0.95

00:33:03.080 as the face of the left so that we couldn't criticize their climate policies. So I just said this on air.

00:33:08.020 And then some of the liberal executives at Fox made a big deal about this and yelled and screamed and

00:33:13.240 all the rest of it. And there was a big push. There were some emissaries from Fox News who implored me

00:33:18.520 to apologize to the company publicly. And they said, oh, you'll be back, you'll be back on air in two

00:33:24.140 seconds if you just apologize. And I said, well, I don't think I did anything wrong. If I felt I did

00:33:27.880 something wrong, I'd consider apologizing, but I don't think I did. I think that, and that was one of the

00:33:33.020 early cases where the conservative audience had a backlash against Fox News for something it did

00:33:40.360 that they felt was liberal and dishonest. I said, I'm not going to do that. Maybe it would have gotten

00:33:46.260 me on Fox News. Probably it wouldn't have. I mean, look at what just happened to Tucker Carlson. And I

00:33:50.220 also went back on Fox News relatively quickly after that anyway. So it wasn't, the devil always does this

00:33:56.340 to you. The devil always gives you these sort of temptations and says, hey, if you just throw away

00:34:00.260 your integrity, hey, if you just throw away your beliefs, hey, if you just throw away your faith,

00:34:03.560 I'll reward you seriously, pinky swear, promise. And then what happens when you make that kind of

00:34:08.220 a Faustine bargain, you get nothing. Anthony Bass learned that. The rest of the normal people should

00:34:13.780 learn that too. Yesterday, it was a great battle for standards and speech, normality on social media.

00:34:20.700 Today, we're seeing the fruit of that fight. Not only are the restrictions removed, but Elon

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00:34:55.500 membership. And now finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear

00:34:59.700 from you in the mailbag. Mailbag sponsored by Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com slash Knowles. Save 50%

00:35:04.000 5-0 off your first month. Take it away.

00:35:07.940 Hello, Mr. Knowles. It is everybody's former favorite resident bass player, Slap My Bass,

00:35:13.980 and I'm coming to you with a question. Over the past couple weeks, I've gone through a series of

00:35:19.640 very life-altering events with my cousin getting married and me just turning 30 years old. And I

00:35:27.260 look back on my life and I come to realize that I've not really accomplished anything in terms of

00:35:32.980 socially. And I would like to settle down and marry a woman now more than ever. But I've yet to have any

00:35:42.280 dating experience with them at all. Looking around at the options that I have right now, and it almost

00:35:47.660 seems like that 90% of the women that I interact with are either huge libs or men pretending to be 0.97

00:35:55.420 women. So my question is, is it really worth looking to date when I am extremely desperate?

00:36:05.660 Or at what point should I say, no, I should not settle and continue to look for the right person,

00:36:13.920 especially since I have not yet dated anybody. And I'm thinking the only option I have is to settle.

00:36:21.040 Thanks.

00:36:21.340 There's your problem right there at the end, slap. There is your problem. I was with you. I was trying

00:36:29.320 to work out a complex solution to your problem until you got there to the end. You said, especially

00:36:33.900 when I haven't dated yet. Go on a date. No, but Michael, you don't understand in the abstract,

00:36:43.500 at a distance, in theory, these women, they're probably not going to work out. Okay, how do you know 0.97

00:36:48.220 that? You haven't gone on a date. Well, I don't know. I just sort of, my view of them in my mind

00:36:54.580 is they probably wouldn't be a good date. Okay, well, what's the worst that happens? You go out

00:37:00.100 to a restaurant, you spend 40 bucks on drinks, and you figure out that the lady is a huge lib, 1.00

00:37:05.800 and you don't like her, and you're not going to marry her. Or maybe you find out that she's a man,

00:37:09.160 and that would be, hopefully you'd figure that out before you go on the date.

00:37:12.240 Okay, all right, you're down a couple of drinks. Okay, you're down a few appetizers. Okay,

00:37:18.940 and then you just go on a date tomorrow. You want to marry a woman. You're not going to marry 0.99

00:37:23.840 a woman. You're going to marry a particular woman. We want to live a flourishing life. You're not going 1.00

00:37:31.440 to live a flourishing life in the abstract. You're going to live a particular life that is going to be

00:37:35.400 flourishing or not in its specificity, in its details, in its particularity. So you got to just go out

00:37:42.080 there and do it. You said 90% of the women I meet, they're not going to be good wives probably. Okay, 1.00

00:37:46.020 what about the 10%? 10% is a lot of people. Have you gone out with them? Andrew Klavan gave me good

00:37:53.000 advice. I repeat it in lots of realms of life. God can't drive a parked car. You're not going to

00:37:58.180 marry a woman by sitting around thinking about the kind of woman you might like to marry. You're 0.96

00:38:03.840 going to marry a woman after you've been dating for some time. You're going to marry a woman after 1.00

00:38:07.400 you're engaged for some time. You're going to get engaged after you propose. You're going to

00:38:11.260 propose after you've dated for some time. And you're going to date for some time after you go

00:38:14.380 on a date and ask a woman out. That's what you got to do first. And maybe you're going to waste a few 0.73

00:38:20.560 nights having drinks with girls who were just awful. Okay, you'll get some funny stories out of it.

00:38:25.120 And then ultimately you get a wife. Okay, next question.

00:38:28.860 Hey, Michael. So a purely hypothetical scenario. Say someone is working for their dream company to work

00:38:36.560 for. But their company has been making some public stances that go directly against their beliefs.

00:38:45.520 For example, blue-haired, bleeding-heart liberal is working for a company that has been outspoken

00:38:51.200 about being pro-Second Amendment and pro-life. Or on the other hand, a very conservative, very Christian

00:38:58.640 person works for a company that has made very public stances that are pro-abortion and anti-religion.

00:39:07.760 Where would you draw the line? How do you feel about that compromise? Do you feel like we should get

00:39:12.800 out while the getting's good? Or do you think we should just stick it out and hope for the best?

00:39:18.080 Thank you.

00:39:18.720 It doesn't sound like your dream company, does it? If the company that you say is your dream company,

00:39:27.780 if they do things that are a nightmare, then it's not your dream company, is it?

00:39:35.180 You might say, well, look, it's a dream company. They do great work, but they've fallen into some

00:39:39.360 of the DEI stuff because of public pressure and whatever, ESG or whatever outside forces are forcing

00:39:45.860 them to in some way participate. I don't know, maybe during COVID they made you wear a mask or

00:39:49.920 something. And you say, okay, I'm going to stick it out because that's annoying, but the company is

00:39:53.520 still doing great work. Okay, maybe there's an argument to be made there. But if the company

00:39:57.060 is in its public stances supporting abortion or supporting transing the kids or whatever,

00:40:03.920 any of this craziness, if the company in its public role is making the country worse,

00:40:09.820 then it's not a dream company. Very often people, it's kind of like what Slap was just saying

00:40:14.380 with his dream girl. They construct this dream, this dream that's just in their minds. And then

00:40:20.940 the reality doesn't correspond with that dream. Okay, you've got to choose the reality. You've got

00:40:25.840 to recognize that our imaginations are deceived. The real origin of Pride Month is from the real

00:40:33.760 origin of the rainbow. The rainbow is a sign that God gives to Noah after the flood. And it's a promise

00:40:39.180 that he'll never again destroy the world in a flood. But what does he say right before he gives

00:40:42.680 Noah this sign? He says that God smelled a sweet savor. And this was from Noah. One of the first 0.80

00:40:49.720 things he does, he gets out of the ark. What's he do? He sacrifices an animal and burns it up to God

00:40:54.980 as a sacrifice. And God smells the sweet savor. And he says, he decides that he would never again

00:41:01.920 destroy the world in a flood because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

00:41:07.260 Our imagination can very often deceive us. So yeah, the company is not what you thought it was.

00:41:14.400 Okay, if it's really egregious, if it crosses your threshold, I guess it's time to look for a new

00:41:19.520 company. Or maybe there isn't a company that is any better. And so you've got to work to improve

00:41:23.780 the company from within. That's reality. Next question.

00:41:26.500 Hi, Michael. My name is Matthias. I have a technology question for you. Recently, the FDA

00:41:33.180 approved Elon Musk's Neuralink technology to begin conducting studies using brain implants in humans.

00:41:41.920 According to the company, this technology could potentially cure incurable diseases such as

00:41:49.960 paralysis, blindness, even help people walk again after a stroke or neurological damage.

00:41:55.460 What are your thoughts on this new technology? And should we use it? Thanks. Love the show.

00:42:02.420 I'm technology skeptical, as you know. I'm not into technology. I don't buy the latest screens and

00:42:08.360 doodads. I don't really care about any of that. But I'm not totally opposed to technology. Technology

00:42:13.800 will develop and that's fine. We use technology all the time. I'm not even opposed to plugging something

00:42:20.940 into your head. I think cochlear implants are a great advance in technology that help deaf people

00:42:25.180 with certain kinds of deafness be able to hear again. Rush Limbaugh had a cochlear implant. Okay,

00:42:28.900 that's great. I'm a little skeptical of being plugged into the matrix. I think that would be a bad

00:42:35.660 thing. I'm a little skeptical of devices that could compromise your free will, which some versions of

00:42:44.120 putting a chip into your brain could do. Some versions of translating thoughts, sort of pre-verbal

00:42:50.720 thoughts into actions could do. So I'm skeptical of that. But I'm not opposed to the technology

00:42:57.840 in principle. As always, in these kinds of cases, the devil is in the details. So I would,

00:43:06.440 if this were a way to correct a problem, to treat an illness, I would be cautiously

00:43:14.540 hopeful about the technology. If this were a way to improve upon humanity, to create a new kind of

00:43:24.100 human that's bigger, better, faster, stronger in every way, that's not fixing a deficiency,

00:43:29.600 but making something new and supposedly better, I would oppose that. Because we must oppose

00:43:35.500 science and technology establishing dominion over the origin and destiny of human life.

00:43:41.240 I know that's not a sexy answer. That's not a totally satisfying answer. Like, I'm pro-neural

00:43:47.080 link or anti-neural link. I'm also very pro-Elon right now that he's supporting the right side in

00:43:51.140 speech and in the gender ideology. But that's the nuanced answer. Someone's going to do this 0.73

00:43:59.380 sort of stuff. We are going to explore these things. Curiosity is not a virtue, but it is a fact

00:44:04.100 of human life. And so we've got to make sure that we're doing it in the right way with the right

00:44:08.460 safeguards. And if it is not able to separate the bad things from the good things, then we've got

00:44:12.440 to stop it. Next question.

00:44:14.300 Hey, Michael. My question today is about the Holy Spirit. I know the Bible tells us that the Holy

00:44:20.320 Spirit is a comforter. And I was just wondering if you've ever felt comforted or convicted and you

00:44:26.520 felt like it was coming from the Holy Spirit. I hear people talking about communication with God or

00:44:33.780 God's calling for their life. And I just wonder if you've experienced that in a way where you feel

00:44:38.700 like God is talking directly to you. Thanks again for the show.

00:44:43.620 Oh, yeah, certainly. Absolutely. And sometimes this is even physical and tangible. You know,

00:44:48.640 one can have a feeling of this sort of thing. And often, though, it's semiotic. The Christian view

00:44:54.060 of the world is a deeply symbolic view. It's especially true for the Catholic view of the world.

00:44:59.620 There are no mere coincidences for the Christian. You know, 0.76

00:45:01.760 it's an evil generation that seeks for signs and wonders. But it's, as my priest in New York

00:45:05.780 pointed out, a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders. And so, even, you know, you see 0.55

00:45:12.620 in the story of Jesus visiting Mary and Martha. Martha is a representative of the active life. She's

00:45:18.960 going around making the lunch. Mary is an example of the contemplative life. She's sitting at the feet

00:45:22.560 of her Lord listening to Christ. And Martha complains about this. And Jesus says,

00:45:27.440 Martha, you don't understand. Your sister has the better part. 1.00

00:45:35.780 The active life is important. The contemplative life is important. The contemplative life is

00:45:39.140 better. We're called not primarily to act. We're called to act, but we're not called primarily to

00:45:42.560 act. We're called primarily to interpret. And so, we see these signs everywhere. What do we do with

00:45:47.980 that? I'm not the sort of person who, you know, is trying to read the tea leaves and discern exactly

00:45:53.640 what I'm supposed to do from this little sign or that little sign. It's more important what the

00:45:58.980 Holy Spirit does primarily, as far as I'm concerned, is to show us his presence.

00:46:07.800 So, when someone sees a sign or a wonder, they say, what am I to make of this sign? You say, oh,

00:46:13.940 you know, he's there. It makes sense. There's providence. You're in the right place.

00:46:19.700 That's it. That's what I tell you. The world is intelligible. There's a divine logic to the

00:46:24.820 universe. Okay. Using my paltry heaping of logic, I'm going to try to figure out the fake headlines

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